advaita yoga deepika

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Originally Sri Shankaracharya and other great Sages had
written several works like the commentary on the Vedanta Sutras
and thus furnished the methods for those engaged in Self enquiry
to accomplish their purpose.
From those, Sri Karapatra Swami later condensed the
salient points into Sanskrit verse in a work of twelve chapters,
called Sri Advaita Bodha Deepika.
Still later, some great man seems to have translated this
into Tamil prose. For some unknown reasons only some eight
chapters of the same are found published. They are:
1. Adhyaropa = Super imposition.
2. Apavada = Its removal.
3. Sadhana = The means of accomplishment.
4. Sravana = Hearing, reading, talking about God.
5. Manana = Reflecting on sravana.
6. Vasanakshaya = Annihilation of latencies.
7. Sakshatkara = Direct Realisation.
8. Manonasa = Extinction of the mind.
In this work the author has explained how Ignorance obscures
the true nature of the Self which is non-dual only; how by its
veiling aspect it covers It (the Self) with two effects — ‘that It does
not exist’ and ‘that It does not shine forth’, how by its other aspect,
in the shape of the mind, projecting individuals, Iswara and the
world and presenting them as real, thus giving rise to illusion; how
one fully qualified is alone fit to obtain this knowledge; how a bare
scholar of the shastras cannot be fit; how enquiry is the chief means
for knowledge; how this enquiry consists in hearing of, reflecting
upon and contemplation of TRUTH, and Samadhi; how the
indirect knowledge gained by hearing puts an end to the idea that
‘It does not exist’ and the direct knowledge gained by reflection,
which means enquiry ‘WHO I AM’ and seeking within, destroys
the wrong notion that ‘It does not shine forth’; how the knowledge
of THOU in THAT THOU ART is identical with the knowledge
of THAT; how by meditation the different latencies perishing which
were the obstacles on the way and the mind which is the limiting
adjunct (upadhi) of the individual perishes too and by the eventual
unobstructed realisation of BRAHMAN (God) the Seeker becomes
free from the bondage of the three kinds of Karma which form the
cycle of births and deaths; how in truth there is neither bondage
nor release for the SELF and in what way to extinguish the mind