uddhavagita_manomimamsa

Mano Mimamsa (Thoughts on Mind) from Uddhav Gita at Stutimandal

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Sample: These people are not the cause of my happiness or grief; the Devatā (of organs or body), the Ātman, the planetary positions, the deeds, and the Kāla (time) are not the cause of my happiness or grief. I come to think that the mind (manas) causes this great world to wander in cycles.[1]

dasasloki

Nirvana Dasakam (Dashashloki) by Adi Shankara at Stutimandal

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Sample: I am neither land nor water, neither fire nor wind, neither sky nor the sense-organs, or not even a collection of these; away from the proximity of multiplicity, proved by the existence of sleep, that which is left or remaining from all of the above, I am only that eternal-bliss.[1]

parapuja

Para Puja by Adi Shankara at Stutimandal

Sample: When the indivisible, eternally blissful, free from transition or change, and induplicate gets stationary (or understood) in mind, then tell me how can I do the prayers! What should be to used to invoke the complete and what should be used as a seat for the One Who is the supreme pillar of existence? Where is the way to clean the feet of the spotless and where is the way to purify the pure.[1—2]

nirvana_manjarii

Nirvana Manjari at of Adi Sankara Stutimandal

Sample: I am not immortal, or I am not a mortal; I am not a demon,; I am not a celestial bard or Yakṣa or the evil-omens; I am not a man, or a woman, or not even a hermaphrodite. I am distinguished and eminent, similar to light (in terms of the expulsion of dark-ignorance); I am eternal bliss or Śiva.[1]