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Friday, March 6, 2026

Isa TOC


      • Isavasya 1 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 2 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 3 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 4 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 5 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 6 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 7 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 8 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 9 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 10 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 11 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 12 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 13 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 14 Translation Fantasia
      • Isvayasa 15 Translation Fantasia
      • Isvayasa 16 Translation Fantasia
      • Isvayasa 17 Translation Fantasia
      • Isavasya 18 Translation Fantasia
      • A. Chinmayananda on Isa Structure
      • B. Isa Selected Translation
      • C. Best Isa Upanishad Translations
      • D. An Isa Transcreation (wip)
      • E. Transcreating Isa 1, 4-8

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Advaita Prime

  • Mandukya 2025 TOC
  • Mundaka Trans & Comms
  • Isavasya Translation Fantasia
  • Kena Translation Fantasia
  • The Lord of Death's Teaching: 15 Verses from the Katha
  • MAHAVAKYA
  • transcreating the mahavakyas
  • Transcreating Drg Drsya Viveka
  • Talks on Aparoksanubhuti
  • Alston on Shankara TOC

Vidya 2026

  • The Creatrix
  • Isvaraverse
  • I Am (Aham Asmi)
  • This Is Called Intuition
  • Space-time Body-Mind Maya
  • Diamond Meme
  • Mahavakya Story
  • Modifying Atman

Advaita 2026

  • Shankara on the Soul
  • Tapovan on Sannyasa
  • Shankara on the Intellect
  • Shankara on Soul and Lord
  • Nikhilananda on Maya
  • Dayananda on Bhagavad Gita 9:22 - the best form of worship
  • Isavasya Translation Fantasias
  • Dayananda on Jijnasu & Jnani (BG7:16)
  • Prajñānam Brahma ~Sarvapriyananda
  • Upanishadic Creations
  • Mahavakyas from Suka Rahasya Upanishad (21-39)
  • Kūṭastha in the Pancadasi

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
  • Chinmayananda on the Vedic Path of Mahavakyas
  • 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)
  • 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

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)

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

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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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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