Advaita Vision

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Advaita for the 21st Century

Contents
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  • FOREWORD
    • Advaita-Vedanta
    • Non-Traditional Advaita
    • Non-Traditional Advaita’s Critique of Advaita-Vedanta
    • Advaita-Vedanta’s response

  • Introduction

  • Key Definitions

  • Context
    • The Reader
    • Purpose of the Book (and Disclaimers)
    • advaita – Non-duality
    • Knowledge
      • Direct/Indirect knowledge
      • Scriptural or Verbal Testimony (shabda)
      • Self-Ignorance
      • Self-knowledge
      • shravaNa, manana and nididhyAsana
      • Teaching advaita
      • Goal of teaching
    • Enlightenment
    • Experience
    • The 'person'
    • Ego
    • Scriptures
    • The Disciple or Seeker
    • The guru
    • Traditional Teaching
    • Satsang Teaching
    • Direct Path
    • Neo-advaita
    • Reality
    • Appearance
    • Ishvara and mAyA
    • Free Will

  • Enlightenment
    • What Enlightenment is not
    • What Enlightenment is

  • (The claim that there is) No Doer

  • (The claim that there is) Nothing to Do

  • (The claim that there is) No Path

  • (The claim that) Practice is of No Value

  • Need for a guru

  • Traditional Teaching
    • Format
    • Preparation
    • Need for provisional truths
    • Some traditional methods (prakriyA-s)
    • Criticism

  • Satsang Teaching
    • History
    • Format
    • Psychology
    • Morality
    • Characteristics of seeker
    • Characteristics of teacher
    • Neo-advaitin Teaching
    • Is the teacher enlightened?

  • What Should You Do?
    • What should you do if you are a seeker?
    • What should you do if you are a satsang teacher?

  • Summary of main points
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Definition of Key Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index
Extracts from the Book
Summary and Endorsements
List of Contents
1. From 'Foreword' - NonTraditional advaita
2. From 'Purpose of the Book (and Disclaimers)'
3. From 'Self-Ignorance'
4. The 'Person'
5. From the 'Scriptures'
6. From 'What Enlightenment is Not'
 
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