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
03 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