Ātmabodhaḥ

TamilDevanāgarī

"Self-knowledge" in sixty-eight verses, written for those already calm and detached: knowledge alone frees, as only fire cooks. Taught through a chain of plain images — the rope and the snake, the pot and the space inside it.

Śrī Ādi Śaṅkarācārya65 Verses, three prose passages and a closing attribution

Read this in one flow
  1. Prose passage

1–10

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10

11–19

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 14
  5. 15
  6. 16
  7. 17
  8. 18
  9. 19
  1. Prose passage

20

  1. 20
  1. Prose passage

21–30

  1. 21
  2. 22
  3. 23
  4. 24
  5. 25
  6. 26
  7. 27
  8. 28
  9. 29
  10. 30

31–40

  1. 31
  2. 32
  3. 33
  4. 34
  5. 35
  6. 36
  7. 37
  8. 38
  9. 39
  10. 40

41–50

  1. 41
  2. 42
  3. 43
  4. 44
  5. 45
  6. 46
  7. 47
  8. 48
  9. 49
  10. 50

51–60

  1. 51
  2. 52
  3. 53
  4. 54
  5. 55
  6. 56
  7. 57
  8. 58
  9. 59
  10. 60

61–65

  1. 61
  2. 62
  3. 63
  4. 64
  5. 65
  1. Closing attribution