Bhavani Ashtakam (Adi Sankara)

Bhavani Ashtakam (Adi Sankara)

பகவான் ஆதி சங்கரர் அருளிய பவானி அஷ்டகம் எனும் இந்த அழகிய எட்டு ஸ்லோகங்கள், காசியில் அன்னை பவானியை வேண்டிப் பாடியதாக வரலாறு. அவ்வரிய இனிய ஸ்லோகங்களின் தமிழாக்கம்.

Kasi Panchakam

Kasi Panchakam

காசி எனும் சொல்லுக்கு ஒளி மிக்கது எனப்பொருள். ‘காச: ப்ரகாச: அஸ்ய இதி காசி:’- அதாவது ஒளிர்ந்து ஒளி தருவது காசி என்பது ஆகும்.

Sadhana Panchakam (Adi Sankara)

Sadhana Panchakam (Adi Sankara)

The ‘sādhana pañcakam’ has five verses, each giving eight instructions; these forty instructions when followed diligently lead to the heightened spiritual awareness. [Tamil and English]

04 Manisha Panchakam Verse 4

04 Manisha Panchakam Verse 4

Is the ‘I’ consciousness applicable only to human-beings? Or is it true for all life-forms? Besides independent of the ‘I-consciousness’, the instruments such as the mind and the organs of perceptions are also seem to have their own local intelligence.

01 Manisha Panchakam Context

01 Manisha Panchakam Context

The Stranger, who was confronting Adi Sankara and his entourage in the narrow street of Varanasi, raises his questions when he was scornfully asked to get away from the path. His questions unearthed profound thoughts of Sankara in the form of Manisha Panchakam.

01 Introduction  Manisha Panchakam

01 Introduction Manisha Panchakam

Adi Sankara’s ‘Manisha Panchakam’ refers to the conclusive wisdom or determinate knowledge asserted in five verses. What is Sankara’s assertion as his determinate knowledge? What is such conclusive wisdom?