Next. First Steps On The Path : p. 7 THE CREST-JEWEL OF WISDOM VIVEKACHMAI p. 8 p. 9 FIRST STEPS ON THE PATH PROLOGUE (Verses 1--15) I BOW before Govinda, the objectless object of final success in the highest wisdom, who is supreme bliss and the true teacher. For beings a human birth is hard to win, then manhood and holiness...
Next. The Essence Of The Teaching : p. 134 p. 135 THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHING VKYA SUDH, OR BLA BODHAN p. 136 p. 137 THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHING SEER AND SEEN THE form is seen, the eye is seer; the mind is both seen and seer. The changing moods of mind are seen, but the witnessing Self, the seer, is never seen. The eye, remaining...
Title Page : p. 153 APPENDIX p. 154 p. 155 APPENDIX A SYMPOSIUM ON THE LIFE OF ANKARCHRYA Prepared for presentation by the Theosophical Club in the Temple of Peace at Point Loma. (Adapted from many sources) I LOVE to think of those great beings, those royal-hearted Ones, who return to earth to shed their...
Next. The Power Of Mind Images : p. 50 THE POWER OF MIND-IMAGES (Verses 299--378) As long as the Self is in bondage to the false personal self of evil, so long is there not even a possibility of freedom, for these two are contraries. But when free from the grasp of selfish personality, he reaches his real nature; Bliss and Being...
Next. The Song Of The Self : p. 149 THE SONG OF THE SELF SIDDHNTA-TATTVA-VINDU p. 150 p. 151 THE SONG OF THE SELF NOR earth nor water, fire nor liquid air, Nor ether, nor the powers, nor these in one; Undifferentiated, in dreamless perfect rest, That, the One, final, blest, alone, am I. Nor castes nor their divisions, rite...
Next. Finding The Real Self : p. 46 FINDING THE REAL SELF BONDAGE THROUGH IMAGINATION (Verses 269--276) RECOGNIZING as thine own the hidden Self, the witness of the soul and its activities, perceiving truly "That am I," destroy the thought of Self in all not Self. Give up following after the world, give up following after...
Next. The Heritage Of The Brahmans : p. 91 THE HERITAGE OF THE BRHMANS BY CHARLES JOHNSTON p. 92 p. 93 THE HERITAGE OF THE BRHMANS IT is said that long ago, in the childhood of the world, the senses were so fine that we could hear the growing of the grass, the rustling of the opening buds of spring. By a memory of these early senses...
Next. 'sankara, The Teacher : p. 1 INTRODUCTORY BY CHARLES JOHNSTON p. 2 p. 3 ANKARA, THE TEACHER THE Upanishads, Buddha, and ankara: these are the three great lights of Indian wisdom. The Upanishads far away in the golden age; in the bright dawn that has faded so many ages ago. Buddha, the Awakened One, who, catching in his...
Next. The Three Kinds Of Works : p. 70 THE THREE KINDS OF WORKS (Verses 439--468) HE who through wisdom discerns that there is no division between the Eternal and the manifested world, bears the mark of one who is free even in life. Whose mind is even, when honored by the good, or persecuted by the wicked, bears the mark of one...
Next. Self, Potencies, Vestures : p. 17 SELF, POTENCIES, VESTURES THE first cause of Freedom is declared to be an utter turning back from lust after unenduring things. Thereafter Restfulness, Control, Endurance; a perfect Renouncing of all acts that cling and stain. Thereafter, the divine Word, a turning of the mind to it...
Title Page. Part 1 : THE CREST-JEWEL OF WISDOM And Other Writings Of ANKARCHRYA Translations And Commentaries By CHARLES JOHNSTON THEOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITY PRESS COVINA, CALIFORNIA First Edition [1946] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , November, 2004. Proofed By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The US...
Next. For Ever Free : p. 86 FOR EVER FREE (Verses 549--561) THE SERPENT'S SLOUGH BUT the body he has left, like the cast-off slough of a snake, remains there, moved hither and thither by every wind of life. As a tree is carried down by a stream, and stranded on every shallow; so is his body carried along to one...
Untitled : THE CREST-JEWEL OF WISDOM AND OTHER WRITINGS OF ANKARCHRYA Translation And Commentaries By Charles Johnston [1946, Copyright Not Renewed] Title Page Cover material Preface Table of Contents INTRODUCTORY ankara, the Teacher THE CREST-JEWEL OF WISDOM First Steps on the Path Self, Potencies, Vestures...
Next. Preface : p. v PREFACE THIS little volume with its foundation-stones of Truth is an effort to further the second object of the Theosophical Society as it was originally expressed by H. P. Blavatsky in "The Key to Theosophy": To promote the study of Aryan and other Scriptures, of the World's religi...
Next. 'sankara's Catechism : p. 130 ANKARA'S CATECHISM EXPLANATORY BY CHARLES JOHNSTON IN THE first part of ankara's Catechism, previously translated, the most valuable thing is the teaching of the sevenfold man, who is really a modified unity appearing in seven modes. The only real and eternal element in the sevenfold...
Next. The Witness : p. 36 THE WITNESS THE MANIFEST AND THE HIDDEN SELF (Verses 198--209) BEGINNINGLESS is unwisdom, and all its works are too; but when wisdom is arisen, what belongs to unwisdom, although beginningless-- Like a dream on waking, perishes, root and all; though beginningless, it is not endless; it is...
Next. The Awakening To Reality : p. 115 THE AWAKENING TO REALITY TATTVA BODHA p. 116 p. 117 ANKARA'S CATECHISM INTRODUCTORY BY CHARLES JOHNSTON IN the "Awakening to the Self," and, still more, in the, "Crest Jewel of Wisdom," ankara the Teacher uses many words in a clear, precise, and consciously exact sense, which is not always...
Next. The Awakening To The Self : p. 104 p. 105 THE AWAKENING TO THE SELF TMA BODHA p. 106 p. 107 THE AWAKENING TO THE SELF THE awakening to the Self is recorded for those whose inner darkness has been worn away by strong effort, who has reached restfulness, from whom passion has departed, who seek perfect Freedom. Among all...
Next. Master And Pupil : p. 74 MASTER AND PUPIL (Verses 469--518) THE TEACHER SPEAKS: THAT, whose nature no man can define; where is no pasturage for mind or word; one, verily, without second, is the Eternal; there is no difference at all. The fullness of Being, self-perfect, pure, awakened, unlike aught here; one, verily...
Next. Cover Material : COVER MATERIAL Inner Dust Jacket "Front" "The image of the supreme Self, stained by the dust of imaginings, dwelling inwardly, endless, evil, comes forth pure, by the stirring power of enlightenment, as the scent of sandalwood comes clear... " And thus clearly, in lucidity and grace, comes forth...
Next. The Perfect Sage : p. 81 THE PERFECT SAGE (Verses 519--548) THE PUPIL SPEAKS: HONOR to that one Being, wherever it is; honor to the Light which shines through the form of all that is; and to thee king of teachers! Beholding him thus paying honor--a pupil full of worth, full of the joy of soul-vision, awakened...
Next. The Teachings Of 'sankara : p. 143 THE TEACHINGS OF ANKARA BY CHARLES JOHNSTON p. 144 p. 145 THE TEACHINGS OF ANKARA TRADITION, our best guide in many of the dark problems of India's past, attributes the admirable philosophical work we have just translated to ankarchrya, the greatest name in the history of Indian Philosophy...
Next. Free Even In Life : p. 62 FREE EVEN IN LIFE (Verses 379--438) CEASING to feed the imagination on things not Self full of darkness, causing sorrow, bend the imagination on the Self, whose form is bliss, the cause of freedom. This is the self luminous, witness of all, ever shining through the veil of the soul; making...
