The Fire of Self-Knowledge: Commentaries on Shankaracharya's Atma Bodha - Softcover

Swartz, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967444462 ISBN 13: 9780967444468

Publisher: ShiningWorld Press, 2019

Synopsis

Shankaracharya’s Atma Bodha was written in the eighth century to clarify the fundamental ideas revealed in the Upanishads. It is meant to be studied as a straightforward introduction, as it does not include elaborate arguments negating dualistic and quasi-dualistic views. The Fire of Self-Knowledge is an illustrated commentary on the great sage’s poetic verses that presents the teaching methodology of Vedanta in an easily understandable manner for the seeker to assimilate the basic concepts.

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About the Author

James Swartz was born in Butte, Montana, in 1941. He grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, and had a very happy childhood. The small world of Lewiston could not contain him, however, and at seventeen he left for a military prep school in Minnesota. He spent two years in a liberal arts

college in Wisconsin, was expelled for disciplinary reasons and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. Six months short of graduation he ran off to Hawaii, where he started a successful small business. But something was terribly wrong; at twenty-six he had become an alcoholic, chain-smoking, gluttonous adulterer, and life in every respect was not worth living. One day in the post office in Waikiki he had a life-changing epiphany that put him on the path to freedom. For more about that remarkable journey, read Mystic by Default.

Edition details

• Publisher: ShiningWorld Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0967444462
• ISBN 13: 9780967444468
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 120