Upadesa Sara- the essence of all teaching – is one of the most popular Vedantic texts. It explains the paths of Action (Karma Yoga), Yoga (Astanga Yoga) and knowledge (Jnana Yoga) and how they lead to the final goal of Self knowledge. The great sage, Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi presents the subject in a simple and beautiful way.
Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda's commentary further simplifies the text and brings out its essence in an appealing way.
Upadesa Sara is a short text but it contains the highest knowledge. It propounds the four main prevalent paths to the Truth. They are Karma Yoga ( Path of Action), BhaktiYoga (Path of Devotion), Astanga Yoga ( Path of Yoga) and Jnana Yoga (Path of knowledge). The first three verses explain the essence of the Path of Action.
Karma Yoga is not doing a good lot of action or doing 'good acts'. It is an attitude of the mind while performing actions and receiving results. This attitude is marked by performance of actions as an offering to the Lord and receiving the results as his gift. The actions are therefore done without ego and ego-centric desires, with dedication and a desire to please the Lord.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Swami Tejomayananda
Swami Tejomayananda, the Chairman and spiritual head of Chinmaya Mission worldwide, is one of the foremost disciples of Swami Chinmayananda. He is an outstanding teacher of Vedanta and an accomplished poet, author, and composer. Swamiji joined the Vedanta course at Sandeepany Sadhnalaya, Mumbai in 1970 and was initiated into the sanyasa in 1983 by Pujya Gurudev.Swamiji has the rare quality of bringing out the depth of Vedanta, with devotion, in simple style from scriptural texts like Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, Ramacharita Manas and Srimad Bhagavatam. Since the mahasamadhi of Gurudev in 1993, Swami Tejomayananda has dutifully undertaken total responsibility to fulfill the vision of the Master. Under his leadership and guidance many new centers have been established and Chinmaya Mission continues to grow in all spheres of its activities . spiritual, cultural, educational and social service programs.Swami Tejomayananda has conducted over 300 Geeta Gnana Yajnas throughout the globe in English, Hindi and Marathi. He has written commentaries, in Hindi, on Adi Shankara's Drik Drishya Viveka and Ramana Maharshi's Upadesa Saram. He has also translated Swami Chinmayananda's commentaries on the Srimad Bhagavad Geeta and Upanishadas in Hindi.
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