Viveka Chudamani

Shankaracharya wrote many commentaries on Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, Gita  and many primary texts. He also wrote introductory texts like Tattvabodha, Atmabodha and so on which introduce the student to various steps on the path of a Seeker, the mumukshu. The crest jewel of all the Vedanta texts is Viveka Chudamani - which means crest jewel of discrimination.  

Under the banner of "Athato Brahma jignyasa", we have presented a few familiar books like, Kathopanishad, Atma bodha, Bhagavadgita. Presenting Gita slokas with word meanings has been a wonderful experience. This led to a family weekly Zoom, reading Gita. over a period of one year. Excited we did that a second time. For the third round of our weekly Zoom, there was all-round consensus that we should attempt reading VivekaChudamani , in spite of a lurking fear that it may be beyond our capability. The excitement swept away all doubts and we started reading Viveka Chudamani using Pullela Ramacandrudu's Viveka Chudamani in Telugu. while we were following  that text, we also prepared a notes more closely linked to meanings of the Slokas. The Telegu version seemed good enough to be presented in the kasarabada.org columns.

Having decided to present the Telugu version, uploading the English version too was a natural corollary.

This is a decision mid-way through our own reading. So we took the decision to upload the Slokas from sloka number 194. Eventually we will also upload all Slokas up to 194 at a later date.

This is the home page for VivekaChudamani. It will be updated weekly with two more Slokas.

This was for our reading pleasure.

Hopefully it will be for your pleasure too.

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