Vivekachudamani

"Scarcely any introduction is needed for a book that professes to be, as its title 'Crest-jewel of Discrimination ' shows, a masterpiece on Advaita Vedanta, the cardinal tenet of which is 'Brahman alone is real, the universe is unreal and the individual soul is no other than the Universal Soul.' Being an original production of Sankara's genius, the book combines with a searching analysis of our experience an authoritativeness and a depth of sincerity that at once carry conviction into the heart of its readers. The whole book is instinct with the prophetic vision of a Seer, a man of Realization, and the expression, too, is so lucid and poetical that quite a new life has been breathed into the dry bones of philosophical discussion, and that, too, on the most abstruse subject ever known."

- Swami Madhavananda