Textos Antiguos

BRAHMA SUTRAS

TEXT, WORD-TO-WORD MEANING, TRASLATION AND COMMENTARY BY

Sri Swami Sivananda

Published by THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY P.O.

THE SIVA SAMHITA.

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 07 January 2000.

This e-text is based upon two separate editions of the Siva Samhita:

* The 1914 edition translated by Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu, published by Apurva Krishna Bose of the Indian press;

* an unidentified edition with a missing title, indica, and some of the pages of the first chapter, but containing the verses from chapter IV that were not included in the Indian Press edition (i.e., verses 53 through 79 under the heading "Vajrondi Mudra").

by Robert Ernest Hume

 

Published 1921

THE YOGA-VASISTHA is a popular text on Non-dual God, Ancient in form and philosophical in content. It is also known by other names like Knowledge Vasistha, Maha Ramayana, Vasistha Ramayana and Vasistha and is ascribed to Sage Valmiki himself.

 

It is in the form of replies given by Vasistha to Sri Rama's queries regarding philosophical problems of life and death, and human suffering, and treats the essentials of Advaita Vedanta