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{{Short description|Sanskrit poem ascribed to Adi Shankara}}
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| author           = Attributed to [[Biography:Adi Shankara|Adi Shankara]]
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| subject          = [[Philosophy:Hindu philosophy|Hindu philosophy]]
| genre            = Advaita [[Philosophy:Vedanta|Vedanta]]
| publisher        = Original: 8th century or later; Modern: T.K. Balasubramania Iyer (1910){{sfn|Grimes|2004|pp=274-278}}
| english_pub_date = Many ([https://archive.org/details/vivekachudamanio00sankrich Madhavananda] (1921), [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/crest/crest-1.htm Charles Johnston] (1946), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jCEX083AJA4C John Grimes] (2004))
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The '''''Vivekachudamani''''' ({{Lang-sa|विवेकचूडामणि}}; IAST: {{Transl|sa|Vivekacūḍāmaṇi}}) is an introductory treatise within the [[Philosophy:Advaita Vedanta|Advaita Vedanta]] tradition of [[Religion:Hinduism|Hinduism]], traditionally attributed to [[Biography:Adi Shankara|Adi Shankara]] of the eighth century,<ref name="Berger2005"/> though this attribution has been questioned and mostly rejected by scholarship.{{sfn|Grimes|2004}}{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2006|p=4}}<ref name="Comansxvi" /><ref name="Isayeva1993p98"/><ref name =Mayeda/><ref name="Berger2005" /><ref name="Pande1994p117" /> It is in the form of a poem in the ''Shardula Vikridita'' metre,<ref name="Br.Usha">{{harvnb|Usha|1990}}</ref> and for many centuries has been celebrated as a {{Transl|sa|prakaraṇa grantha}} (teaching manual) of Advaita.<ref name="Berger2005"/>

''Vivekachudamani'' literally means the 'crest-jewel of discrimination'.<ref name="Madh_1">{{Harvnb|Madhavananda|1921|p=1}}</ref> The text discusses key concepts and the ''[[Philosophy:Viveka|viveka]]'' or discrimination or discernment between real (unchanging, eternal) and unreal (changing, temporal), Prakriti and Atman, the oneness of Atman and [[Philosophy:Brahman|Brahman]], and self-knowledge as the central task of the spiritual life and for [[Philosophy:Moksha|Moksha]].<ref name="apc2011">[http://www.arshabodha.org/adiShankara/Vivekachudamani_eBook.pdf Sri Sankara’s Vivekachudamani], Achyarya Pranipata Chaitanya (Translator) and Satinder Dhiman, Tiruchengode Chinmaya Mission, Tamil Nadu (2011)</ref>{{sfn|Grimes|2004}}<ref>{{Harvnb|Espín|James B. Nickoloff|2007|p=1471}}</ref> It expounds the [[Philosophy:Advaita Vedanta|Advaita Vedanta]] philosophy in the form of a self-teaching manual, with many verses in the form of a dialogue between a student and a spiritual teacher.

Through the centuries, the ''Vivekachudamani'' has been translated into several languages and has been the topic of many commentaries and expositions.

==Author==
The authorship of the ''Vivekachudamani'' has been questioned.{{sfn|Grimes|2004}} According to Reza Shah-Kazemi the authorship of Shankara is doubtful,{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2006|p=4}} though it is "so closely interwoven into the spiritual heritage of Shankara that any analysis of his perspective which fails to consider [this work] would be incomplete".{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2006|p=4}} {{refn|group=note|See also arshabodha.org, [http://www.arshabodha.org/adiShankara/Vivekachudamani_eBook.pdf ''Sri Sankara’s Vivekachudamani''], p.3-4, ''The Question of Authorship of Vivekachudamani''}} According to Michael Comans, a scholar of Advaita Vedanta, though the Hindu tradition popularly believes that Adi Shankara authored the ''Vivekachudamani'', this is "most probably erroneous".<ref name="Comansxvi" /> Comans gives the following reasons for his doubts: the highly poetic style of the ''Vivekachudamani'' is not found in other genuine works of Adi Shankara; there is a lack of extensive commentaries (''bhasya'') on the ''Vivekachudamani'' which is unusual given the extensive commentaries on his other works; and unlike Shankara's other genuine works which give minimal importance to {{Transl|sa|nirvikalpa}} ''[[Philosophy:Samadhi|samadhi]]'' practices, the ''Vivekachudamani'' gives special importance to it.<ref name="Comansxvi" /> Though the ''Vivekachudamani'' is a popular manual on Vedanta, it is probably the work of a later Shankara, and not Adi Shankara, states Comans.<ref name="Comansxvi">{{cite book|author1=Toṭakācārya|author2=Michael Comans (translator)|title=Extracting the Essence of the Sruti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-eq605vuwUC|year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass  |isbn=978-81-208-1410-3|pages=xv–xvi}}</ref> Yet another theory, states Berger, is that "rather than simply having been written or not written by [Adi] Sankara, the Crown Jewel of Discrimination may be a corporately authored work [of Advaita monasteries] that went through revisions".<ref name="Berger2005" />

According to Natalia Isayeva, a scholar of Advaita Vedanta, it is "far less probable" that Adi Shankara authored the ''Vivekachudamani''.<ref name="Isayeva1993p98">{{cite book|author=Natalia Isayeva|title=Shankara and Indian Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8joZUvpnGlwC |year=1993|publisher= State University of New York Press|isbn= 978-1-4384-0762-3|page=98}}</ref> Sengaku Mayeda, another scholar of Indian Philosophy and Advaita Vedanta, states that though widely accepted as Shankara's work, the ''Vivekachudamani'' is likely not his work.<ref name =Mayeda>{{cite book|author=Sengaku Mayeda|title=A Thousand Teachings: The Upadesasahasri of Sankara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jc9RHYN3qsC|year=2006|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-2771-4|pages=10 footnote 33}}</ref>

Paul Hacker, an Indologist and scholar of Advaita, set out a methodology for ascertaining authorship of Advaita texts and he concluded that though the ''Vivekachudmani'' is unusual in parts, it was likely authored by Adi Shankara.<ref name="Berger2005" /><ref name="Pande1994p117">{{cite book|author=Govind Chandra Pande|title=Life and Thought of Śaṅkarācārya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAiyujUqTwYC |year=1994|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1104-1|pages=117–119}}</ref> Hacker stated that the definitions of the key concepts, premises and ideas found in the ''Vivekachudmani'' match with those in Shankara's established authentic works.<ref name="Berger2005">{{cite journal|last1=Berger|first1= Douglas L.|title=The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada: An Introduction and Translation (review)|journal= Philosophy East and West|volume=55|issue =4|year= 2005|pages= 616–619 |doi=10.1353/pew.2005.0032|s2cid= 144412379}}</ref> Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., another influential Indologist, rejected Hacker's conclusion by accepting Hacker's methodology and presenting evidence from its manuscripts that some of the ideas in the text do not fully agree with those of Adi Shankara.<ref name="Berger2005" /><ref name="Pande1994p117" />

According to John Grimes, a professor of [[Religion:Hinduism|Hinduism]] and [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]] known for his translation of the ''Vivekachudamani'', "modern scholars tend to reject that Adi Shankara composed Vivekachudamani, while traditionalists tend to accept it", and there is an unending "arguments and counter-arguments" about its authorship.{{sfn|Grimes|2004|p=23}} Grimes states that his work strengthens the case that "there is still a likelihood that Śaṅkara is the author of the {{Transl|sa|Vivekacūḍāmaṇi}}," {{sfn|Grimes|2004|p=23}} noting that "a strong case can be made that the {{Transl|sa|Vivekacūḍāmaṇi}} is a genuine work of Sankara's and that it differs in certain respects from his other works in that it addresses itself to a different audience and has a different emphasis and purpose."{{sfn|Grimes|2004|p=13}}<ref name="Berger2005" />

Irrespective of the attribution, the ''Vivekachudmani'' is a significant work of Advaita''.'' According to Swami Dayananda Saraswat<nowiki/>i, a [[Philosophy:Vedanta|Vedanta]] teacher, "I do not think we lose anything even if the authorship is attributed to any other [[Religion:Shankaracharya|Sankaracharya]] of one of the various Sankara-mathas."<ref>[http://www.arshabodha.org/adiShankara/Vivekachudamani_eBook.pdf Sri Sankara’s Vivekachudamani], Achyarya Pranipata Chaitanya (Translator) and Satinder Dhiman, p. 4</ref>

== Manuscripts ==
Many historic manuscripts of the ''Vivekachudamani'' have been found in different monasteries of Advaita Vedanta. These have minor variations, and a critical edition of these has not been published yet.{{sfn|Grimes|2004|pp=274-278}} The earliest original Sanskrit manuscript of the ''Vivekachudamani'' was published from Srirangam (Tamil Nadu) by T.K. Balasubramania Iyer in 1910.{{sfn|Grimes|2004|pp=274-278}} This edition has attracted much of 20th- and 21st-century scholarship, and has been republished in 1983 after some revision and re-arrangement to reflect studies on it since 1910. Other editions have been the basis of a few Indian translations. The five most referred to manuscripts in Advaita scholarship have been published by Samata (Chennai), Advaita Ashrama (Kolkata), Sri Ramakrishna Math (Chennai), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Mumbai), Chinmayananda Ashrama (Mumbai).{{sfn|Grimes|2004|pp=274-278}}

== Contents ==
The ''Vivekachudamani'' consists of 580 verses in [[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]. These cover a range of spiritual topics and their answers according to the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism.

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  |+ ''The Vivekachudamani''
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | width=80px style="background: #ffad66;" | Section
  | width=80px | Verses
  | width= 300px | Topics{{sfn|Grimes|2004|pp=56-273 (see pages 274-278 for variant readings)}}
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 1
  | 1-31
  | Man's life and quest, spirituality, liberation: basic aspects
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 2
  | 32-71
  | The need for a teacher, characteristics of a good teacher, characteristics of a good student
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 3
  | 72-110
  | The physical, the body: discriminating the three essences
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 4
  | 111-135
  | Nature and effects: five sheaths, three gunas
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 5
  | 136-146
  | The goal of spirituality, the nature of bondage, the nature of confusion, the nature of sorrow
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 6
  | 147-153
  | Atma and Anatma: discrimination, self-knowledge and bliss
|-style="text-align: left;"
 | rowspan=8 style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 7
  | 154-225
  | The path to self-knowledge
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 154-164
  | Annamaya kosha and its negation
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 165-166
  | Pranamaya kosha and its negation
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 167-183
  | Manomaya kosha and its negation
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 184-188
  | Vijnanamaya kosha and its negation
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 189-206
  | The free soul, what is freedom and liberation, why self-knowledge is necessary
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 207-210
  | Annamaya kosha and its negation
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 211-225
  | Atman, what it is not? what is it?
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 8
  | 226-240
  | The absolute brahman, the atman, the oneness, and the [[Religion:Vedas|Vedic]] precepts
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 9
  | 240-249
  | That thou art: you are it!
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 10
  | 250-266
  | Meditation, its purpose, the method, questions to ponder and reflect on
|-style="text-align: left;"
 | rowspan=7 style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 11
  | 267-338
  | The method
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 267-276
  | Understand and end ''vasanas'' (impressions, inertia, memorized beliefs and behavior)
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 277-292
  | Understand and end ''svadhyasa'' (superimposed sense of self)
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 293-309
  | Understand and end ''ahankara'' (false ego)
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 310-319
  | Renounce egocentric work, craving and sense objects
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 320-329
  | Be true to supreme self, be vigilant against delusion
|-style="text-align: center;"
  | 330-338
  | Cherish oneness, there is no duality, no plurality; dwell in the real, not the unreal
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 12
  | 339-383
  | Spiritual growth and nirvikalpa samadhi, the entire universe is you, you are the self of all
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 13
  | 384-406
  | Continuous attention to one's true nature
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 14
  | 407-425
  | Atam-vichar: self-inquiry
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 15
  | 426-445
  | Signs of a realized seer: jivanmukta
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 16
  | 446-471
  | The saint without plurality
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 17
  | 472-520
  | The disciple of knowledge and the experience of self-hood
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  | 18
  | 521-575
  | Final words of advice from the teacher
|-style="text-align: left;"
  | style="background: #ffdd66;"  |
  | 576-580
  | Epilogue: the liberated disciple and the innermost essence of Vedanta
|}

The text begins with salutations to [[Religion:Govinda|Govinda]], which can be interpreted either as referring to God or to his guru Sri [[Biography:Govinda Bhagavatpada|Govinda Bhagavatpada]].<ref name="Madh_1"/> It then expounds the significance of Self Realisation, ways to reach it, and the characteristics of a [[Biography:Guru|Guru]]. It criticizes attachment to the body and goes to explain the various Sareeras, Kosas, Gunas, Senses and Pranas which constitute the [[Philosophy:Anatman (Hinduism)|Anatman]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Sri Samkara's Vivekacudamani|author=Sri Chandrashe hara Bharati of Sringeri|year=1973|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|place=Mumbai|page=xxi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncQYAAAAIAAJ&q=sri+samkara's+vivekacudamani}}</ref> It teaches the disciple the ways to attain Self-realisation, methods of [[Philosophy:Meditation|meditation]] (dhyana) and introspection of the Atman. The'' Vivekachudamani'' describes the characteristics of an enlightened human being (''Jivanmukta'')<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/29/stories/2005062900070900.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526103450/http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/29/stories/2005062900070900.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-05-26|title= Man of wisdom |date=2005-06-29|work=The Hindu|access-date=2009-05-22}}</ref> and a person of steady wisdom (''Sthitaprajna'') on the lines of Bhagavad Gita.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/18/stories/2009021859851100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222024326/http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/18/stories/2009021859851100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-22|title= State of liberation |date=2009-02-18|work=The Hindu|access-date=2009-05-22}}</ref>

==Significance==
The ''Vivekachudmani'' has been celebrated for centuries as a lucid introductory treatise to [[Philosophy:Advaita Vedanta|Advaita Vedanta]].<ref name="Berger2005"/> It is, states Berger, not a "philosophical or polemical" text. It is primarily a pedagogical treatise, as an aid to an Advaitin's spiritual journey to liberation rather than "philosophy for the sake of philosophy". It is one of the texts of "spiritual sustenance" in the Advaita tradition.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Berger|first1= Douglas L.|title=The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada: An Introduction and Translation (review)|journal= Philosophy East and West|volume=55|issue =4|year= 2005|pages= 618–619 |doi=10.1353/pew.2005.0032|s2cid= 144412379}}</ref>

The ''Vivekachudmani'' is one of several historic teaching manuals in the Advaita tradition, one of its most popular. Other texts that illustrate Advaita ideas in a manner broadly similar to the ''Vivekachudmani'' but are neither as comprehensive nor same, include ''Ekasloki'', ''Svatmaprakasika'', ''Manisapancaka'', ''Nirvanamanjari'', ''Tattvopadesa'', ''Prasnottararatnamalika'', ''Svatmanirupana'', ''Prabodhasudhakara'' and ''Jivanmuktanandalahari''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Govind Chandra Pande|title=Life and Thought of Śaṅkarācārya|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=nAiyujUqTwYC&pg=PA121 |year=1994 |publisher= Motilal Banarsidass |isbn= 978-81-208-1104-1|pages=117–121}}</ref> These texts are not attributed to Adi Shankara. ''[[Philosophy:Upadesasahasri|Upadesasahasri]]'', another Advaita teaching manual, is attributed to Adi Shankara.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Śaṅkarācārya|author2=Sengaku Mayeda (Translator)|title=A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcNM17mfaRgC | year=1979|publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn= 978-0-7914-0944-2|pages=15–16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=N. V. Isaeva|title=Shankara and Indian Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hshaWu0m1D4C | year=1993|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-7914-1281-7|pages=220–221}}</ref>

==Commentaries and translations==
There are two Sanskrit commentaries on this work. Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrusimha Bharati, the pontiff of Sringeri, wrote a commentary titled ''Vivekodaya'' (Dawn of Discrimination) on the first seven verses of this work. His disciple, Sri Chandrasekhara Bharathi, has written a Vyakhya or commentary on the first 515 verses of this work.

This work has been repeatedly translated into various languages, often accompanied by a commentary in the same language. English translations and commentaries include those by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, Swami Madhavananda, Swami Turiyananda and Swami Chinmayananda. [[Social:Tamil language|Tamil]] translations and commentaries include those by [[Biography:Ramana Maharshi|Ramana Maharshi]]. Swami Jyotihswarupananda has translated the ''Vivekachudamani'' into [[Social:Marathi language|Marathi]].<ref>Nagpur, India: Ramakrishna Math; 2009</ref>

A recent scholarly translation of the text was published in 2004 by John Grimes – a professor of Hinduism and Buddhism. His translation has been reviewed by Douglas Berger, who states, "the [''Vivekachudmani''] translation itself is a testament to Grimes’ surpassing Sanskrit skills and thorough knowledge of Vedantic textual exegesis. The unusually lucid presentation of the Sanskrit slokas is rendered with exactness and eloquent clarity in the English. The accompanying Upanisadic cross-referencing and Sanskrit-English lexicon of key terms will prove themselves enormously helpful to lay readers, students, and scholars."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Berger|first1= Douglas L.|title=The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada: An Introduction and Translation (review)|journal= Philosophy East and West|volume=55|issue =4|year= 2005|page= 619 |doi=10.1353/pew.2005.0032|s2cid= 144412379}}</ref>

Hundreds of commentaries in several languages are available on internet in the form of blog articles, videos etc.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Some translated works of the ''Vivekachudamani''
!Language
!Author
!Publication/Year
|-
|Hindi
|Munilal Gupta
|Gita Press, 2017
|-
|Telugu
|A. Venkata Sesha Kavi
|1990
|-
|Kannada
|Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
|2018
|-
|Tamil
|Sri Ramana Maharshi
|1905, [https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/resource_centre/audio-2/viveka-chuda-mani/ Audio Book] 
|-
|English
|Sri Jnanananda Bharati
|2015
|}

== Famous verses ==
* {{Transl|sa|Brahma satya jagat mithya, jivo brahmaiva naparah}}

Translation: "Brahman is the only truth, the world is illusory, and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and individual self."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosen|first=Steven |title=Krishna's Song|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HbFbhJcdXIC&q=vivekachudamani&pg=PA70 | isbn=978-0-313-34553-1}}</ref> While this verse is frequently attributed to the ''Vivekachudamani'', in fact it comes from Verse 20 of the ''Brahma Jnana Vali Mala''.

* {{Lang|sa|अर्थस्य निश्चयो दृष्टो विचारेण हितोक्तितः {{!}} न स्नानेन न दानेन प्राणायमशतेन वा {{!}}{{!}}१३{{!}}{{!}}}} ({{Transl|sa|arthasya niścayo dṛṣṭo vicāreṇa hitoktitaḥ {{!}} na snānena na dānena prāṇāyamaśatena vā {{!}}{{!}}13{{!}}{{!}}}})

Translation: "By reflection, reasoning and instructions of teachers, the truth is known,

Not by ablutions, not by making donations, nor by performing hundreds of breath control exercises."<ref>See:
*D. Datta  (1888), Moksha, or the Vedántic Release, ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'', New Series, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct., 1888), pp. 513-539;
*Madhavananda’s [https://archive.org/details/vivekachudamanio00sankrich translation of ''Vivekachudamani''] published in 1921, Himalayan Series 43</ref>

== See also ==

* Viprata

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
{{refbegin|2}}
* {{Citation | last =Grimes | first =John | year =2004 | chapter =Introduction | title =The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada: An Introduction and Translation | isbn =978-0754633952}}
* {{cite book|last=Usha|first= Brahmacharini |title=A Brief Dictionary of Hinduism|publisher=Vedanta Press|year=1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vU63wJv4YrsC&pg=PA72|isbn=978-0-87481-048-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Espín|first=Orlando O.|author2=James B. Nickoloff |title=An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies|publisher=Liturgical Press|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k85JKr1OXcQC&q=vivekachudamani&pg=PA1471 | isbn=978-0-8146-5856-7}}
* {{cite book | last = Madhavananda | first = Swami |  title = Vivekachudamani of Sri Sankaracharya | publisher = Advaita Ashrama | year = 1921 | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vivekachudamani_(Swami_Madhavananda) }}
*{{cite book|last=Prabhavananda|first=Swami|author2=Christopher Isherwood |title=Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination|publisher=Vedanta Press|year=1970|isbn=978-0-87481-038-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Ranganathananda|first=Swami|title=The Message of Vivekachudamani|publisher=Advaita Ashrama|year=2008|pages=624|isbn=978-81-7505-308-3}}
* {{Citation | last =Shah-Kazemi | first =Reza | year =2006 | title =Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart | publisher =World Wisdom}}
*{{cite book|last=Sri Chandrashekara Bharati|author2=P.Sankaranarayanan  | title=Vivekachudamani |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|year=1999|edition=4}}
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Prabhavananda|author2=Christopher Isherwood|title=Shankara's crest-jewel of discrimination |publisher=Vedanta Press|year=1978|edition=3|isbn=978-0-87481-038-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Chatterji|first=Mohini M. |title=Viveka Chudamani Or Crest Jewel of Wisdom of Sri Sankaracharya |publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2004|pages=212|isbn=978-1-4179-8207-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVHpJ2TPwnAC}}
* {{cite book|last=Mishra|first=Dr. Suryamani |title=Viveka Chudamani Hindi Translated |publisher=Chintan Prakashan|year=2016|pages=126|isbn=978-93-85804-10-6|url=http://www.chintanprakashan.com/sanskrit-religious/vivekchunamani-hindi-rupantar}}

==External links==
*[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/legacy/movements/ancient-east/advaita-vedanta/sri-sankaracharya/crest-jewel-of-wisdom/ ''Vivekachudamani'' – Multiple Translations (Johnston, Chatterji, Madhavananda)]
*[https://archive.org/details/VivekachudamaniPart1Of4WithEnglishMeaning Complete audio with eng meaning - Part 1]
*[https://archive.org/details/VivekachudamaniPart2Of4WithEngMeaning Part 2]
*[https://archive.org/details/Vivekachudamanipart3Of4WithEng.meaning Part 3]
*[https://archive.org/details/VivekachudamaniPart4Of4WithEnglishMeaning Part 4]
*[https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/vivekachudamani/index.html Vivekachudamani with additional notes] Translated by Swami Madhavananda, online ebook
*[https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/crest/crest-1.htm The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom: VIVEKACHUDAMANI, By Sankaracharya], Translated by Charles Johnston

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