Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration (With Authentic Explanatory Notes)

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Ācārya Kundakunda’s Niyamasāra – The Essence of Soul-adoration (With Authentic Explanatory Notes)

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Table of Contents

Chapter-1. THE SOUL
Chapter-2. THE NON-SOUL
Chapter-3. THE PURE THOUGHT-ACTIVITY
Chapter-4. THE EMPIRICAL RIGHT CONDUCT
Chapter-5. THE REAL REPENTANCE
Chapter-6. THE REAL RENUNCIATION
Chapter-7. THE SUPREME CONFESSION (INTROSPECTION)
Chapter-8. THE REAL EXPIATION
Chapter-9. THE SUPREME MEDITATION
Chapter-10. THE SUPREME DEVOTION
Chapter-11. THE SUPREME ESSENTIAL
Chapter-12. THE PURE-COGNITION

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‘Niyamasāra’ by Ācārya Kundakunda (circa 1st century BC) is among the finest spiritual texts that we are able to lay our hands on in the present era. The treatise expounds, with authority, the nature of the soul (ātmā) from the real, transcendental point-of-view (niścayanaya). It expounds the essence of the objects of knowledge, and, by the word ‘niyama’, the path to liberation. ‘Niyamasāra’ is the Word of the Omniscient Lord. It has the power to bestow ineffable happiness of liberation that is utterly rid of attachment, without obstruction, eternal, and sense-independent. This happiness is attained by meditating on the perfect-soul-substance which is pristine, and endowed with four qualities of infinite-knowledge, imperishable, indestructible, and indivisible. Worthy men aspiring for supreme happiness who comprehend this Scripture without contradiction of the empirical (vyavahāra) and the transcendental (niścaya) points-of-view are able to adopt conduct that leads their souls to the desired goal. By concentrating on the pure (śuddha) and inseparable (abheda) ‘Three Jewels’ (ratnatraya), eternal happiness appertaining to the perfect-soul-substance is attained. ‘Niyamasāra’ discourses right exertion for the soul and its fruit, the supreme liberation.

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Dehradun, India
Other Titles
Niyamasara

Contributors

Editor
Vijay K. Kain
Foreword
Dr. Chakravarthi Nainar Devakumar

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Hardcover
Pagination
lxiv + 342p.
Number of pages
406
Dimensions
10 x 7 x 2 inches
Weight
1 kilos

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OL26897681M
ISBN 13
9788193272633

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