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Accomplishing the Accomplished: Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Sankara (Monograph of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy)

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AMEN! A book of this kind is a long awaited blessing to humanity! The author clearly shows that this traditional teaching is not within the theory-practice-bliss paradyme which is unfortunately the deep seated notion of most Guru's & scholars in the field. What to talk of the layman! This notion postpones the immediacy of the teaching which can put a person on a futile trip for life! Vedanta is not a theory or a practice, nor does it give some bliss-experience. Vedanta is not a philosophy, speculation or point of view. "The view" which Vedanta unfolds through a live traditional teacher, is that you ARE everything you want to be,HERE and NOW! Not knowing this, we mistake ourselves to be limited and endlessly suffer. Through immediate cognition of the implied meaning of the most profound equation viz. "TAT-TVAM-ASI" "That-(limitless being) you are", self ignorance is removed along with its broods of self non-acceptance and suffering. One accomplishes the already accomplished! I highly recomend this book to all scholars and layman alike who can be intelectualy sincere enough to read and grasp its profound implications. Note: the compliment to this text is "The limitaion of scripture" by the same author.
Swami Vagishananda Saraswati