Upadeśasāhasrī (उपदेशसाहस्री), metrical

Rāmānuja's qualified non-dualism and Madhva's dualism read the same sūtras from the other side. The comparison is the theistic primer. No commentary is sat there. These pages remain Śaṅkara's verses.

Advaita is Śaṅkara (शङ्कर)'s reading of Vedānta (वेदान्त), and it is āstika (आस्तिक). The Veda, in the part called the Upaniṣads (उपनिषद्), is the pramāṇa (प्रमाण). These pages are not a seventh darśana (दर्शन). They are how he teaches that reading in his own verses.

The book is the metrical half of the Upadeśasāhasrī (उपदेशसाहस्री). The tradition takes it as Śaṅkara (शङ्कर)'s. The prose half is a different kind of lesson and is not the text here. The metrical half has nineteen prakaraṇas (प्रकरण), and all nineteen are in this pāṭha (पाठ). The names are the names of the colophons. Prakaraṇas (प्रकरण) 1–3 are written out by hand. From prakaraṇa (प्रकरण) 4 on, the sitting is a gloss of the words in the verse.

Most verses are anuṣṭubh (अनुष्टुभ्). Some prakaraṇas (प्रकरण), such as 10, are in longer metres like vaṃśastha (वंशस्थ). The English of the whole verse comes after the words.

धेरैजसो श्लोक अनुष्टुभ् छन्। प्रकरण १० जस्ता केही प्रकरण वंशस्थ जस्ता लामा छन्दमा छन्।

Where this reading meets the Buddhist one, the verse says so. Prakaraṇa (प्रकरण) 3, verse 3, is that meeting: neti neti (नेति नेति) is for removing a false superimposition. A negation aimed at something else would be a description of emptiness. The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (मूलमध्यमककारिका) is the book that teaches emptiness in its own words. Read that book for that teaching. Do not import it into a verse that has not said it.

The sūtra these verses read is the Brahma Sūtra. The Buddhist examination of śūnyatā (शून्यता) is the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (मूलमध्यमककारिका).

669 of 669 lines have a sitting. From prakaraṇa (प्रकरण) 4, only the second half of each verse is shown.

चौथो प्रकरणदेखि हरेक श्लोकको दोस्रो आधा मात्र देखाइएको छ।

The word-by-word glosses on the part pages were generated automatically and have not all been reviewed.

भाग-पृष्ठका शब्दार्थ स्वचालित रूपमा बनाइएका हुन्, र सबै जाँचिएका छैनन्।

Begin at 1.1

Chapters

• 1. Caitanya (चैतन्य)26 of 26 written. Begin at 1.1Awareness, and why vidyā (विद्या), knowledge, is what ends the round. Karma (कर्म) is the other claimant.
• 2. Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध)4 of 4 written. Begin at 2.1What remains is neti neti (नेति नेति), not this, not this.
• 3. Īśvara (ईश्वर)4 of 4 written. Begin at 3.1The Lord and the self. The negation is aimed at a false adhyāsa (अध्यास), superimposition.
• 4. Ahaṃpratyaya (अहंप्रत्यय)5 of 5 written. Begin at 4.1The thought I, and how karma (कर्म) sprouts.
• 5. Mūtrāśaṅka (मूत्राशङ्क)5 of 5 written. Begin at 5.1A doubt raised from the old example, and the fear that knowledge ends karma (कर्म).
• 6. Chittvā (छित्त्वा)6 of 6 written. Begin at 6.1Cutting the differences away.
• 7. Buddhyārūḍha (बुद्ध्यारूढ)6 of 6 written. Begin at 7.1What has been taken up into the intellect.
• 8. Citisvarūpa (चितिस्वरूप)6 of 6 written. Begin at 8.1Awareness as one's own form.
• 9. Sūkṣmatā (सूक्ष्मता)9 of 9 written. Begin at 9.1Fineness. The coarser reading is set down.
• 10. Dṛśi (दृशि)14 of 14 written. Begin at 10.1Seeing.
• 11. Īkṣitṛtva (ईक्षितृत्व)16 of 16 written. Begin at 11.1Being the seer.
• 12. Prakāśastha (प्रकाशस्थ)19 of 19 written. Begin at 12.1Standing in the light.
• 13. Acakṣuṣṭva (अचक्षुष्ट्व)27 of 27 written. Begin at 13.1Not being an eye.
• 14. Svapnasmṛti (स्वप्नस्मृति)50 of 50 written. Begin at 14.1Dream and memory.
• 15. Nānyadanyat (नान्यदन्यत्)54 of 54 written. Begin at 15.1One thing is not something other.
• 16. Pārthiva (पार्थिव)73 of 73 written. Begin at 16.1What is made of earth.
• 17. Samyaṅmati (सम्यङ्मति)87 of 87 written. Begin at 17.1Right thought.
• 18. Tattvamasi (तत्त्वमसि)230 of 230 written. Begin at 18.1That thou art.
• 19. Jvaranāśa (ज्वरनाश)28 of 28 written. Begin at 19.1The destruction of the fever.