The Vedanta Philosophy of Sankaracharya: Crest-Jewel of Wisdom, Atma Bodha, Tattva Bodha, Vakhya Sudha, Atmanatma-Viveka, with Articles and Commentari
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Sankaracharya is, for me, the greatest of all Masters of the Mind;
he has, indeed, conquered and circumvented the mind at every
turning, making a slave, nay, even a most effective servant and
ally of that power which, for so many teachers, has bee ceaselessly
reprobated, as the Slayer of the Real. Sankara has shown how to
draw the grains of gold from the matrix of the mind, to make the
mind the door-keeper of the soul.-Charles Johnston This is a taste
of the high praise which Charles Johnston gives to the great
Sankaracharya. He did not merely view him as a religious reformer,
but as a high philosopher, as one who studied and revealed the
science of Mind, to a degree, perhaps, as no other has done before
or after. For Johnston, Sankara represents the mind and soul of
Vedanta-the culmination of a work of centuries, through the efforts
of countless sages. In his own words: By the Vedanta, we mean, I
think, the sum of the rivers of wisdom which rise in the
Upanishads, and flow through books like the Bhagavad Gita into the
reservoir of the Brahma Sutras, made level and water-tight by the
Commentary of Sankaracharya. Of the value and importance of
Sankara's works, Johnston has much to say throughout his
commentaries and in the articles included in this volume. To him,
the texts translated here teach quite plainly and lucidly, the
first steps on the path of wisdom. They offer us not only a high
intellectual understanding of the Vedanta philosophy, but a high
moral foundation as well. The works translated and commented upon
in this volume are drawn from several sources, and passed through
more than one rendition each. Johnston first began his translation
of these works in 1894 on behalf of the Oriental Department of the
Theosophical Society. Therein he completed a translation of the
Atma Bodha, Tattva Bodha, Vakya Sudha, Siddhanta-Tattva-Vindu and
the famous Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudamani). These
translations were later compiled and published by the same society
as The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other Writings of Sankaracharya
(Theosophical University Press, First Edition, 1946). These,
however, are not the same translations that appear in the present
volume. Several years after his work for the Oriental Department,
Johnston revisited his translations of each of these works, with
the exception of the Siddhanta-Tattva-Vindu, revising and refining
his terminology, greatly enhancing his clarity and, in our opinion,
improving upon the poetry of each translation. These later
translations appeared in a small periodical magazine call the
Theosophical Quarterly, between the years 1913 and 1925. It is
these, with their accompanying commentaries, that appear in this
volume. Several articles are also included in the work, both to
introduce and to supplement the translations. These are are drawn
from several sources, and provide many details of Johnston's
approach to Vedanta not covered in his commentaries. A second
appendix provides a translation of the Atmanatma-Viveka by the
theosophist Mohini Chatterji, along with an article by the same
author. Johnston's Vedanta is, we feel, a faithful representation
of Sankara's thought and intent, translated not only from one
language to another, but from one culture to another. He makes
Sankara's works accessible to the western mind, giving us a
foothold into the nature of eastern wisdom in a way few others have
done.
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