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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Alston on Shankara toc

Shankara on Avidya (nescience)

Shankara on the Absolute as Lord

Shankara on the Unmoving Mover

Shankara on the Deeper Levels

Shankara on Cause, Effect, and the Absolute

Shankara on Vedic revelation

Shankara on Name and Form

Shankara on Adhyaropa and Apavada

Shankara on Defining the Absolute

Shankara on Satyam Jñānam Anantam Brahma

Shankara on Bliss

Shankara on Creation Texts

Shankara on Gaudapada's Acosmic Doctrines

On Shankara. Snippets on Shankara's Identity and True Works (plus Alston Info)

On Shankara: Gaudapada and Madhyamika Teaching

On Shankara: Schools of Advaita

On Shankara and Satcitananda


A. J. Alston Bibliography:

Shankara on the Absolute: Shankara Source Book Volume One Kindle Edition

Shankara on the Creation: Shankara Source Book Volume Two Kindle Edition

The Thousand Teachings of Shankara: Upadeshasahasri






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Advaita Plus

  • Suite Reality
  • Reality Jingles
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti (work in progress)
  • my Advaita Makaranda (a work in progress)
  • Transcreating Dakshinamurti (work in progress)
  • Mandukya 2025 TOC
  • Mandukya 2025 Translations & Commentaries
  • Mandukya 2025 Talks & Transcreations
  • Alston on Shankara TOC
  • Transcreating Ashtavakra Gita
  • Transcreating Drg Drsya Viveka
  • Kena Translation Fantasia
  • Chandogya 6 Selected (tr-Gambhirananda)
  • Chandogya 7 (and Shankara) on Prana (vital force) and Realisation
  • Satprakashananda on Maya, Brahman, and Isvara
  • Dayananda on Ananda
  • Advaita History
  • Isvara's Prayer

selected advaita

  • The Lord of Death's Ancient Teaching (15 Key Verses from Katha 1.2 & 1.3)
  • Vedantic Cosmology: Nikhilananda on Katha 1.3.10,11,13 (and Shankara on the Sanskrit)
  • Nikhilanda on Om in Katha 1.2.15
  • On Adhyātma-yoga in Katha 1.2.12
  • Katha on Divine Grace
  • The City of Brahman: Dayananda on Mundaka 2.2.7
  • Focus, Friend: Transcreating Mundaka 2.2.2 & 4
  • Triangulating Brahman (the maker and the material) On Mundaka 1.1.7
  • What Is Brahman According to Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.6
  • Kena 2.4 Pratibodha-viditam Brahman is known through every cognition
  • Isa Upanishad and Some Commentaries
  • On Individual Liberation (I, I Am, & I Am X): Pancadasi 7-1/18 According to Tejomayanada
  • Paraverse on Pancadasi
  • Paraverse on Drg Drsya Viveka
  • On Cicchaya (reflection of consciousness)
  • MAHAVAKYAS
  • four advaita systems essential features
  • Svetasvatara 1.3 on devātma śakti
  • Nikhilananda on Deep Sleep per Prasna Upanishad
  • Views on Cause and Effect

Mandukya 2025

  • Mandukya, Karika & Bhashya by Nikhilananda (via Wisdom Library)
  • My Favorite Advaitic English Translations of the Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika for 2025
  • My Mandukya Paraverse
  • --- TOC Mandukya & Karika 1 (from Chinmaya Sandeepany
  • Talks on Mandukya 2-6
  • Mandukya 7 word by word
  • 11 Translations of Mandukya 7
  • My Mandukya 7
  • Talks on Mandukya 7
  • Talks on MK1.11-15
  • Talking Realization: Transcreating Gaudapada's MK 1.15-18
  • Mandukya 9-11 Aum Associations Chart
  • Mandukya 12 Word-by-word, Translations & Commentaries
  • Talks on Mandukya 12
  • The Perfect Name: Aum is the Lower and Higher Brahman: Translation and Commentaries on K1.26
  • Talks on K1.24-29
  • --- TOC Karika 2 Vaitathya Prakarana (from Chinmaya Sandeepany)
  • Talks on Mandukya K2.1-6: Dreaming Up a Waking State
  • The Famous MK2.12: Some Translations & Commentaries
  • Mandukya K2:12 Medley
  • Talks on Mandukya K2.12: atmanatmanam-atma
  • MK2.16 (&17,18): Translations & Commentaries
  • Mandukya K2.16 Medley
  • Short Talks on Mandukya K2.16: kalpayate purvam
  • Mandukya K2.32: This is the highest Truth (Iti esa paramarthata)
  • Talks on K2.32: na vai mukta
  • Mandukya K2.33: Non-duality is auspicious (Advayata siva)
  • MK2.35-38: Shankara's Commentary on Gaudapada's Method of Sadhana
  • Talks on MK2.35-38: tattvam
  • --- TOC Karika 3 Advaita Prakarana (from Chinmaya Sandeepany)
  • Some Commentary and Translations on and of MK3.1-2
  • Talks on Mandukya K3.3-9: akasa
  • Talking about Talks on MK3.3-9
  • Some Commentaries on and Translations of MK3.19-22 re: Immortality
  • Talks on Mandukya K3.19-22: aja
  • Translations and Commentaries on MK3.23-26 re: sama sruti
  • Translations & Commentaries on K3.27-28 re: sato / asato
  • Talks on MK3.27-28: sato
  • Translations & Commentaries on K3.29-33: ajenajaṁ
  • Talks on MK3.29-33: amani-bhava
  • Translations & Commentaries on K3.34-39: asparsa
  • Talks on MK3.34-38: asparsa
  • Translation & Commentaries on MK3.48: uttamam satyam
  • Talks on MK3.48: uttamam
  • --- TOC Karika 4 Alaata-Shanti Prakarana “Quenching the Firebrand" (from Chinmaya Sandeepany)
  • Chinmayananda on Mandukya Karika 4
  • Translations & Commentaries on MK4.42-46
  • Talks on MK4.42-46: na patanti viparyaye
  • Translation & Commentaries on MK4.47-52: alata spanditam
  • Talks on MK4.47-52: the firebrand
  • Translations & Commentaries on MK4.82-86
  • Talks on MK4.82-86: the sage abides
  • Translations & Commentaries K4.91-95
  • Talks on MK4.91-95: sarve dharmah
  • Translations & Commentaries MK4.96-100
  • Short Talks on MK4.99-100
  • Project Mandukya 2025 Afterword: Two Gaudapadas and a Buddhist Elephant

Mandukya 2021

  • On Mandukya Translations
  • Comans on Shankara on Gaudapada on Samadhi
  • Mandukya 7 Translation Fantasia
  • Nine Translations of Mandukya 7 (plus one on Sankara's commentary) on Turiya
  • On Eka-ātma-pratyaya-sāram
  • On Natural Apprehension. Commentary in Paraverse on Gaudapada K1.15.
  • The All-important Karika 2-12
  • Gaudapada's K2 Siddhanta
  • On Eka Jiva Vada & K3-5
  • Unflagging (paraversing Gaudapada K3, 29-33)
  • Deep Sleep Is Nihilism's Name: A Commentary on Gaudapada.
  • Gaudapada Suffers No Fools
  • Gaudapada's Asparsa Yoga
  • Hajime Nakamura on Mandukya Karikas
  • On Mandukya 5-6

Aparoksanubhuti 2025

  • Apararok
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 16: knower, witness
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 17/21: Atman is
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 22-24: sea of satcitananda
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 25-28: real knowledge
  • Talking Aparoksanubhuti 25-28: rock opera
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40: supreme I
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 43-45: Brahman only
  • Talking Aparoksanubhuti 43-45: ignorance of the rope
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: born of Brahman
  • Talking Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: from The Aparok Opera Experience
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: no second
  • Talking Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: body, ego, god, and dna
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 56-58: the real seer
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 104-124 (work in progress)

vedantasara etc

  • Realization According to Vedantasara
  • Vedantasara's Apocalypse Now
  • Tattvamasi According to Vedantasara
  • three verses on maya

selected paraverse

  • Mind Games, Isvara Verse, & Brahman
  • Self Prayer
  • On Samsara, God, and Reality: The Spotsy Sutra
  • advapara 2023
  • Ode to My Way
  • 2020 selected
  • 2019: sun tantra
  • 2019: valley spirit symphonies
  • 2019: the new aumdada manifestos
  • 2019: mythshow
  • 2019: hyper-overture and thunderbird
  • 2018: my particular myth
  • 2018: fool's paraverse
  • 2017: the concentrated tantra of luminous dreaming
  • 2016: condensing the dreaming

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      • Mandukya 7 word by word
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      • Footnotes to Talks on Mandukya
      • Talks on Mandukya
      • TOC Mandukya & Karika 1 (from Chinmaya Sandeepany
      • Alston on Shankara toc
      • Couplet Number One
      • On Bliss
      • The Silver Screen of Consciousness
      • The Cask of Shankara
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      • On the Seventh Day of a Seventh Month
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selected transcreations

  • New Aumdada Kena Transcreation 1:1-4
  • assorted upanishad verses
  • my rumi
  • taoist poems of cold mountain
  • nondual poetry of lal ded
  • tao: the poem.
  • kena upanishad
  • transcreating zhuangzi
  • transcreating christ

Cold Mountain Transcreation

Cold Mountain Transcreation

Lal Ded Transcreation

Lal Ded Transcreation

Lao Tzu Transcreation

Lao Tzu Transcreation

kena transcreation

selected nisargadatta

  • Nisargadatta: found in translation
  • on awareness reflected in consciousness
  • on words
  • very complicated riddle
  • on helping the world
  • rhapsody in who: quoting n
  • four passages from ptc
  • n is my guru

selected myth (dream)

  • peter russell on a new metaparadigm of consciousness
  • tenzin wangyal rinpoche: dreaming in meaning
  • snippets from 'beyond space and time'
  • the program. of light.
  • illustrated reflexive universe

selected chan (zen)

  • Hui-neng on One Practice Samadhi
  • the antimetaphysics of baizhang (pai-chang)
  • early chan meditation 1: bodhidharma wall-examining
  • early chan meditation 2: daoxin (tao-hsin) practice
  • balancing chan: southern—northern; sudden—gradual
  • a catalogue of early chan dunhuang texts and selections
  • the bodhidharma documents and brief selections
  • moheyan: timeline and timeless zen teaching
  • chan master yuan on bodily energy (t'i-ch'i) and spirit
  • concerning the treatise on the transcendence of cognition

selected tao

  • Comparative Zhuangzi
  • six translations of a single cold mountain poem
  • oscar wilde on chuang tzu
  • the zhuangzi (chaung tzu) translation awards

selected christ

  • death and resurrection of christian wisdom
  • jesus' nondual way of the heart
  • thomas merton on contemplation

selected sufi

  • The Best Translations of Sufi Poetry
  • Notes on Sanai, Attar, and Rumi
  • transcreating rumi
  • exchanging helminski's free verse rumi
  • kabir helminski on translating rumi
  • on best translations of hafiz—and a controversy
  • kalabadhi quoting hallaj (tr-ernst)
  • on sanai and english translations

selected japoetics

  • poetics of ikkyu (crazy cloud) in eleven poems
  • the poetics of saigyō in eight poems plus one
  • the poetics of ryōkan in eight poems
  • a poetics of kukai (kōbō daishi)
  • shunzei on the way of depth in poetry
  • the realizational poetics of mujū dōkyō

selected other

  • On Best English Translations of The Upanishads
  • notes on chinese lyric poetry (shih)
  • evolutionary tree of religion graphic
  • krishnamurti’s ‘the first and last freedom" in 1086 words
  • ramana maharshi: first words to the west
  • last words of ramana maharshi
  • self-remembering fixedly
  • the wisdom of emily dickinson
  • henry david thoreau on the vedas

2023 book

2015 book

Selections

  • Tao: the poem.
    Tao Te Ching concentrated as a lyric series.
    Meditations on the Great Principle & its Sage.
  • Nisargadatta 66
  • Chuang Tzu - Fasting of the Mind
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