BOOK SUMMARY OF ASTAVAKRAGITA:(THE SONG OF THE SELF SUPREME)(THE CLASSICAL TEXT
OF ATMADVAITA BY ASTAVAKRA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, SANSKRIT TEXT, ENGLISH
TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX)
Astavakragita is a unique text among the world's contemplative classics dealing
systematically with the mystical experiences of the Self on its way to
transcendence, peace and bliss. There are few ancient treatises in East or West
which evince such profound and lively concern with the Supreme Self as the
ultimate reality, embo-died in mystical insight and experience, and written with
such spiritual imagination and poetic fervour. This book presents in twenty
chapters the substance of Astavakra's teaching in respect