ग्रन्थनाम [Book Name]               - Misconceptions About Shankara

लेखकः [Author]                         - श्री सच्चिदानन्देन्द्रसरस्वतीस्वामिनः [Sri Satchidanandendra Saraswathi Swamiji]

प्रकाशकः [Publisher]                 - अध्यात्मप्रकाशकार्यालयः [Adhyatma Prakasha Karyalaya]

भाषा [Language]                       - आङ्ग्लभाषा [English]

विचारः [Topic]                            - वेदान्तः (उपनिषत्) [Vedanta (Upanishat)]

आकारः [Size] - Demi 1/8th        पुटाः [Pages] - 126

ग्रन्थविवरणम् [Description]          - Swamiji in his preface to this book writes “Earnest students of Sri Shankaracharya’s Advaita system, have reason to be bewildered in their attempt to ascertain his exact teaching about the message of Upanishads to the seekers of the Highest Good.....” The reason is, Swamiji writes “.....there are two fertile sources of this confusion. In the first place, Shankara’s works are now generally studied and taught by learned Pandits who are mostly guided by popular Sanskrit works relaying on one or more of the conflicting sub-commentaries claiming to propound Shankara’s thought. And in the second place, neither the professors nor the oriental scholars, who undertake to write on the subject in English, seem to be earnest in entering upon a comparative study of the varying estimates of Shankara presented by the sub-commentaries and the adverse critics of (Shankara) belonging to other schools on the one hand, and in the original works of Shankara, independent of the commentaries on the other, before arriving at any conclusion about the genuine views of that Acharya.....” Swamiji has made an attempt in this book which makes the earnest seekers to understand correctly the genuine views of Shankara without

getting confused.