Preface
Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswatiji gave a series of talks at Rishikesh, November 2011, on Näțakadīpa Prakaranam from Śri Vidyaranya's Vedanta Pañcadaśī. This book is the edited version of the transcription of these talks. It is a long-awaited publication and the first such book of Pañcadasi. We hope to follow through with more prakaranas from the same source. Śrī Vidyāranya, a great scholar and teacher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, has presented the self by comparing it to a lamp on the stage of a theatre, while the accompanying instruments represent the buddhi and the sense organs. The individual, the jīva, is equated to the prabhu, the organiser of the program. One cannot but appreciate the imagery of the lamp as the sākși-caitanyam which is oneself. In his unique way of unfolding the vision of Vedanta, Pujya Swamiji directly plunges into the topic. To quote him. The tenth chapter of the Pancadaši begins with a bombshell. If you teach the first nine chapters, you can glide into the tenth. If not, if you start with the tenth, it opens with the assumption that you know the vision of the whole śruti'. Consequently, Pujya Swamiji introduces the topic by first selecting the fifth verse and goes into great detail to make the understanding complete. Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust is grateful for the help received from Ms. Janani. Cleary and Swami Ramesvaranada Saraswati for the transcription of the talks. I am very happy to note that AVR and PT continuously strives to bring out more and more titles of international standard of Pujya Swamiji's teachings under the able leadership of Smt. Sheela Balaji.
About The Book
Nățakadīpa Prakaraņam from Vedanta Pañcadaśī of Śri Vidyaranya is a prakaraņa text that presents the vision of the Upanişads. A study of this text can help you gain clarity of the vision of Vedanta.
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