Contents

• 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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