This book aims to give an exposition of basic tenets of Advaitism as propounded by Sankara in a succinct yet comprehensive manner. He is often claimed that Sankars looked upon the world as a “Maya†or illusionand rejected karmayoga. It has been clearly brought out how these widespread beliefs are unfounded. Separate chapters have been earmarked to exposition of Sankara’s major works like Vivekchoodamani and his seminal commentaries on the Gita, the Upanisad the Brahman sutras. This book highlights the tremendous contribution made by Sankara to the evolution of Hindu metaphysics. It is hoped that through the published even a lay reader will be able to appreciate why Advaitism has been aptly described as the acme of Indian philosophy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.V. Joshi
The author Dr. Prakash V. Joshi was born in 1948 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. After graduating with high honors from the Institute of Science, Bombay, he went to Cambridge where he did Tripos in Mathematics. He was recepient of the Tata scholarship. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1972. He has served with distinction in India and abroad. He was in Guyana from 1998 to 2002. He was in Guyana from 1998 to 2002 where he was posted as India's High Commissioner. He was awarded doctorate by the JNU in 1990 in the field of International Studies. Dr. Joshi is keenly interested in Comparative study of religions, Hindu metaphysics and spiritualism. His other publications include: Saga of Hinduism (Volume I and II), and Vedanta to Modern science. An accomplished speaker Dr. Joshi has given several talks on spiritual themes. He delivered a weekly discourse on the Gita on the TV while in Guyana.
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