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    Re: Favorite translator of Shankara's works?

    Thank you all. Silence speaks, I am of course a complete novice but your emphasis on the Bhagavad Gita seems unusual in the study of Advaita Vedanta. I was under the impression that it was not a particularly central text to Advaita and that Shankara commented it almost solely as a deference to it's popularity...
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    Re: Favorite translator of Shankara's works?

    Quote Originally Posted by silence_speaks View Post
    Listening is better than self study.
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    Total Surrender of Ego to SELF is Real Bhakti - Ramana Maharshi

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    Re: Favorite translator of Shankara's works?

    Dear shays860,

    For beginners tattvabodha is suggested as the first book by most teachers of vedanta.
    Upadesha saram of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi also is a good work to start with.

    Bhagavad Gita is good because it is really a holistic teaching ... its the essence of upanishads !

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    Re: Favorite translator of Shankara's works?

    To start with you can read this :

    http://www.atma-jnan.blogspot.in/

    its not mine, its a book called who am i written by swami dayananda saraswati --- a friend has typed it here.

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    Re: Favorite translator of Shankara's works?

    Thank you for your suggestion. I have since went ahead and signed up for the Chinmaya correspondence course though. I made a thread about this but maybe it won't hurt to ask here as well. They emphasize choosing a deity and I assumed they would either supply me with one or not deal with a personal deity so now I feel kind of stuck at the introduction... It doesn't seem wise to just choose a deity on a whim. but I'm on a schedule with these courses... Any feedback? I've always leaned toward Shiva but I don't know that much.

    Thank you.

    Ps I noticed that I wrote in my last post that Shankara translated the Bagavad Gita and my intellectual pride will not let me go without saying that I know he didn't translate them, he commented on them...

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