Shankara (also known as Shankaracharya) is the greatest of the poet-philosophers of India. In his brief 32 years of life, his enormous literary output included commentaries on the Vedanta Sutras, the principal Upanishads and on the Gita., the Vivekachudamani, plus many minor works, poems and hymns.
Written by Shankara, translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
A classic text on the path to God through knowledge. The basic teaching is that God alone is the all-pervading reality;
