Forwarded Message to Swami Atmananda from Guy Werlings

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Forwarded From Guy Werlings <guy.werlings

Swami Atmananda

 

Revered SvAmiji,

 

Browsing through the archives of the ADVAITIN-LIST, (of which I'm no

longer a member for the time being) I saw with high interest that you

started lessons on TATTVABODHA of Adi SrI SankarAcarya.

 

Now, I've a question on the subject, and I apologize if you have already

 

answered to it by elsewhere, and if I overlooked your answer :

 

Looking in my set of Complete Works of SrI SankarAcarya, I could not

find any TATTVABODHA. In the volume nr 2 on prakaraNa-s, I found one

TATTVOPADESA, which does not match at all your general literary

description, as the latter is all in Sloka-s, while you say TATTVABODHA

is in prose except for one opening and one concluding Sloka.

 

I know there has always been wide discrepancies between scholars and

even between shankarite traditions as to which works should be

attributed to Adi SrI Sankara, but how can we known that TATTVABODHA is

one of these "genuine" works ? (I acknowledge myself that if the work

can help us in our search for the knowlege of Truth, the question of its

 

historical authorship is (perhaps not a minor), but at least a

in a way a secondary detail.

 

I hope you will not consider my question as the unfriendly attitude of

an incredulous French Cartesian but as the sincere quest for Truth (if

possible at all on the topic) of a staunch student of SrI GauDapADAcarya

 

and SrI SankarAcarya.

 

With respects and love,

 

Guy Werlings

 

dhanyavAdaH SrI Ram Chandran ! Please feel free to alter the above text

if you find in it anything misplaced or inappropriate.

 

Kindest regards

 

Guy