Recommended By: Shailendra Raj Mehta
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CONTENTS


NOTE TO 2001 EDITION vii
NOTE TO 1994 EDITION ix
INTRODUCTION xi
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii
PART ONE: THE TRADITION
ONE ANCIENT TRADITION: VEDIC AND UPANISADIC 3
ROOTS 3
The Teacher in the Upanisads 8
The Guru-Sisya Relationship 15
Pedagogy in the Upanishads 19
TWO SANKARA AND TEACHING TRADITION 29
The Nature of the Guru 32
The Personality of the Religious seeker 45
The Guru-Sisya Relationship 55
THREE SANKARA'S PEDAGOGY IN RELIGIOS LIFE 60
Self-Inquiry 61
Triple-Method: Hearing, Reflection, Concentration 65
The place of meditation 71
Practice of meditation 77
The Independence of Self-Realization 80
FOUR THE TEACHING HERITAGE AFTER SANKARA 84
The First Disciples of Sankara 85
Works of the Late-Sankara 90
Diversity within Advaita Vedanta 96
The Threshold of the Present


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PART TWO: PRESENT DAY SANKARACHARYAS
FIVE THE SANKARACHAYAS AND THE SEATS OF LEARNING 109
The Vidyapithas Today 112
The Pathasalas and Traditional Education 117
The Present Sankaracharyas 122
The Ministry of Sankaracharyas 127
The Capacity of a Jagadguru


132
SIX THE TEACHING OF THE SANKARACHARYAS 135
The Dharma Path 136
Themes of special interest 142
The Supreme teaching: Advaita Vedanta 146
The Exaltation of Adi Sankara


152
SEVEN THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP TODAY 154
The Meaning of the Student Today 161
The Experience of a Guru 168
The Path of the Student 170
EIGHT THE GURU IN THE MODERN WORLD 175
Hymn to Sri Daksinamurti 175
The Guru in the Historical Order 177
The Guru in Modern Life 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY 189
GLOSSARY 202
INDEX 209