[Advaita-l] [advaitin] An Allegory for the Self's Freedom

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Namaste,
I don't believe the translation is yet available. When it is It will most
likely be posted for gratis download on
http://www.adhyatmaprakasha.org/php/english_books.php

These are transcribed talks different than other texts by SSSS and would
serve wonderfully as an Advaita primer imho


On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM khaaksaar <musafir57 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pranaams Michael ji,
>
> Thanks for sharing these wonderful excerpts.
>
> Kindly please advise if the draft translation of the book, Universally
> Accepted Teachings of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, is available.
>
> Dhanyavaad!
>
> satinder🙏
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM Michael Chandra Cohen <
> michaelchandra108 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Though this very Self is Brahman, we mistakenly consider ourselves
>> bound—much like a wealthy man imagining himself to be a pauper. Though ever
>> free, we struggle to attain liberation. Consider the story of a thief
>> repeatedly imprisoned, who once managed to escape by outwitting the guards.
>> When a friend asked, “Which gate was the hardest to escape from?” he
>> answered, “The one that was open!”
>>
>> That gate opened outward, but the prisoner had exhausted himself pulling
>> it inward. Finally, dejected, he leaned back against it—and the door swung
>> open by itself! The illusion was that the door was locked, when in truth it
>> was not. Similarly, we are already free, but due to a mistaken sense of
>> bondage, we labor in vain, seeking a liberation that need not be acquired.
>>
>> All our efforts made in the fog of ignorance often deepen our
>> entanglement. Like the thief, when we finally cease striving in the wrong
>> way and fall back in surrender, the door of Truth opens—by the unseen grace
>> born of past merits.
>>
>> These are the Universally Accepted Teachings of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
>> -from the book of the same name by Sri Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati,
>> draft translation
>>
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