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lator has convincingly proved that his grip and grasp are full and that he is as much of a scholar as Mitramiśra shows himself to be in the work. The translation immortalises Mitramiśra and his work both. The Index at the end arranges the topics into full and clear-cut details and gives to us yet another proof of the profound scholarship of the translator. We heartily welcome this useful work.
A Compendium of the Rajayoga Philosophy.
Ed. Rajaram Tookaram-Golden Publication Services-New Delhi 1983, pages 171+4 price Rs. 55.
This is a welcome reprint of a compendium of six valuable works on spiritual knowledge after more than eighty years. Here five works are by Sri Sankaracarya and one by Sadananda. The five are the famous. Vedantaprakaraṇas by Sri Sankara, the internationally renowned Indian philosopher. They are Aparoksanubhuti, Atmanātmaviveka, Vakyasudha, Vivekacudamani and Carpatapanjari. The work by Sadananda is the celebrated 'Vedantasära'. The purpose of this selection is, as laid down. by the editor, to submit "before aspirants to spiritual knowledge both in the East and the west......the theory of the Higher Self and the mode of its realization." It is assured that "a careful study of these treatises will lead them to an excalted state of mind, which will raise them above the sphere of physical sorrows and pains and ultimately enable them to overcome the limitation of time and space by realizing the Immortal Ego-". The purpose of these translations is thus really laudable and the works selected are also the most authentic in the realm of spiritual knowledge and the highest uplift and realization. The translations are by famous scholars and they are of no mean order. However, we that the works could, better have been arranged as follows:
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(i) वेदान्तसार - Sadānanda (ii) - which will lay down the ideal of the higher and the highest for the aspirant to spiritual knowledge and wisdom. that exposes man's excessive attachment to all that is worldly and mortal, that he is expected to get over as the first step to progress on the path of higher realization.
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(iv) मानविक - that teaches to man Atma and Anatma and the desirability of discarding or getting over the the distinction between latter in favour of the former.
(v) agar That lays down the dire need of annihilation of the ego in order to go nearer and nearer to the truth of Atma and the falsehood of Anatma.
