Adi Sankara's Pratasmaranam - Vedanta in Capsule Form

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In three verses for pratasmaranam, Adi Sankara brings out the entire

essence of the Vedantic teaching. Though there are a number of pratasmarana

slokas or prayers for chanting in the morning,most of them are associated with

attributes. A rare pratasmarana stotra in the form of three verses given by Adi

Sankara to remember the Advaita Svarupa, in which he brings out the entire

essence of Vedanta. They invoke the higher essential nature called Atma Tattvam,

the real 'I'.

 

Sankara, in the first and third verses, has established the existence of

the only reality -- that jivatma and paramatma are one and the same, and the

world or anatma has perceived form only. In the second verse, Acharya deals with

the knowledge of the Advaita Tattva and the means of attaining that knowledge.

The stotra concludes with the phalasruti that mere parayanam or reading of the

slokas itself will lead one to moksha.

 

I request you to listen this Pratasmarana stotram of Adi Sankara.

 

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