[Advaita-l] Aatma Gita / Aatma Puranam of Swami Sankarananda

[Vasu Raghavan]

Namaste to everyone

Can someone guide me where I can get a PDF version of Aatma Gita / Aatma
Puranam of Swami Sankarananda (Swami Sankarananda is said to be the Guru of
Swami Vidyaaranya)

I will be very thankful for any responses.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
With warm regards


Vasudevan Raghavan

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 5:51 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> This is a work of Shri Appayya Dikshitendra. In this Tamil discourse each
> verse is expounded in short with dual meanings: one applicable to Lord
> Shiva and the other applicable to the Yagas with the background of the
> Purva mimamsa nyayas. It is a very interesting discourse exposing the
> listener to the Upanishads, Veda and Purva Mimamsa rules.
> https://shaivam.org/devotees/works-of-sri-appaiya-dikshita  Siva Mahima
> Kalikastuti :
> This is a work in 25 verses praising Lord Siva. By handling the slesha or
> the technique of using words and phrases that can be interpreted in two
> different manners, the author is able to expound in this work some of the
> principles of mimamsa. Sri Dikshita himself must have written a commentary
> or vyakhya on this, since the verse, as they exist today, could not be
> fully understood without a commentary, as the intricate details of the
> mimamsa sastra have all been brought forward in this work by means of
> similes. Moreover, in this work all the details of Ishti, pasu, etc. given
> in the karmakanda, all details of yagas like the Soma yaga, and the upasana
> of Lord Siva as given in the gnanakanda have been explained as per the
> rules of mimamsa, with slesha alankara. Hence a commentary is very
> essential to grasp the correct meaning of this.
> This Stuti, in addition to explaining the Vedantic truths, is also replete
> with the rules of purva-mimamsa. Vedanta is described as the divine
> parijata tree here.The idea is that like the Parijata which is the tree of
> Devas and which grows in the Nandanodyana and which fulfils all desires, so
> does Vedanta which gives to a devotee all the purusharthas. This Stuti can
> be compared to a bouquet made of Parijata flowers. The fragrance that
> emanates is the Purva mimamsa rules. Without a knowledge of them Vedanta
> cannot really be understood. Hence this is said to contain the essence of
> both the systems of thought.
>
> https://youtu.be/fC-8s4JjOEo
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