The ''Aparokshanubhuti'' (
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
: अपरोक्षानुभूतिः) is a famous work attributed to
Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara ("first Shankara," to distinguish him from other Shankaras)(8th cent. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya ( sa, आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, Ādi Śaṅkarācāryaḥ, lit=First Shanka ...
. It is a popular introductory work (prakran grantha) that expounds
Advaita Vedanta
''Advaita Vedanta'' (; sa, अद्वैत वेदान्त, ) is a Hinduism, Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience, and the oldest extant tradition of the Āstika and nāstika, orthodox Hindu school Ved ...
philosophy. It describes a method that seekers can follow to directly experience the essential truth of one's one nature. Thus, the work is literally titled ''Aparokshanubhuti'', or ''Direct Experience''. Swami Vimuktananda titles his translation ''Self-Realization''.
[{{cite book, last=Vimuktananda, first=Swami , title=Self-Realization, publisher=]Advaita Ashrama
Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899 at the behest of Vivekananda, . This work has been repeatedly translated and commented upon in other languages.
References
External links
Translation of Aparokshanubhuti
by Swami Vimuktananda
Vedanta Society, ''Swami Sarvapriyananda's lectures on Aprokshanubhuti - 44 Part Series''
Indian philosophy
Sanskrit texts
Advaita Vedanta texts