TABLE OF CONTENTS

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s SAMARPA
SAMARPA

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s BENEDICTION

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ix

Pjyar Swami Dayananda Saraswati .................

xi

s AUTHOR'S NOTE

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xix

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s GUIDE TO TRANSLITERATION
TRANSLITERATION.................

xxiii

s FOREWORD

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xxix-xliii

Sri. B. Madhavan

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xxxi

Dr. E.R. Rama Bai

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xxxiv

Prof. S.R. Janakiraman

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xxxvi

Dr. K. Sundara Raman

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xl

Smt. Seetha Narayanan

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xlii

s PREFACE

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xlv

s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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xlix

s ABBREVIATIONS

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liii

s INTRODUCTION

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01-11

ADVAITA VED
NTA
VED

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13-49

Nature of Reality

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15

The essential and accidental Definitions

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17

Personal God and

Attributeless Absolute

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22
25
30

s CHAPTER I - D
D KITA AND

The Concept of My and Adhysa.....................

God (vara) and soul (jva)

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Five sheaths, three bodies and

three states of the soul (jva) .........................
Cosmogony

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Means to liberation

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Tattvamasi

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Liberation

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Jvanmukti and Videhamukti

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33
36
38
44
47
48

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51-114

Dev as the Supreme Brahman of

Advaita Vednta
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53

Dev as My

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59

Dev as Kmakal

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68

Advaita of akara and the

Advaita of the kta

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76

s CHAPTER II - DKITA AND

RVIDY

Dev as Varamay

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Dev
Dev as Mantramay

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Dev as Cakramay

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Dev as Kualin

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Dev as Guru

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Dev-worship

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Dev - Mythology

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Dev - Names

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Dev - Forms

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76
78
85
94
98
105
107
109
111

s CHAPTER III - DKITA AND TEMPLES ....

115-160

The Guruguha vibhakti ktis

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Other ktis on Murug

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Gaapati-ktis

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Ktis on Lord iva

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Other ktis on Lord iva

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Ktis on Lord Viu

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118
124
127
135
146
151

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161-179

References to the art of music

and dance

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Use of rga-mudrs

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Literary excellence

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Group ktis

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Other references

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163
168
171
176
177

s CHAPTER IV - DKITA

FROM OTHER ANGLES

s CHAPTER V - DKITA -

VIGNETTES

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181-189

On Supreme

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On karma

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On bhakti

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On the purpose of human life

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His experience expressed

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183
184
185
186
186
187

s NOTES

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191-211

s SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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213-221

s ILLUSTRATIONS

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223

On the mystic significance of deities .................