updated on 30th December 2011

"Shri Shankaracharya Vaksudha"

Cover of 'Shri Shankaracharya Vaksudha'

(The Life & Teachings of Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati)

Published Vikram year of 2004 (Gregorian year 1947)

attributed to 

Shri 108 Dandi Swami Adwaitanand Saraswati

with compilation & editing by

Shri Mahesh Prasad ji

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श्रीशंकराचार्य-वाक्सुधा

( प्रथम भाग )

श्रीशंकराचार्य - वाक्सुधा

( प्रथम् भाग )

अर्थात्

अनन्तश्रीविभूषित जगद्गुरु श्रीशङ्कराचार्य ज्योतिष्पीठा-
धीश्वर स्वामी ब्रह्मानन्द सरस्वतीजी महाराज के
उपदेश और संक्षिप्त जीवनचरित्र

सङ्कलन-कर्ता -
श्री १०८ दण्डी स्वामी अद्वैतानन्द सर्स्वतीजी महाराज
की प्रेरणा से श्रीमहेशप्रसादजी द्वारा
सङ्कलित तथ सम्पादित
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प्रथम् संस्करण ३००० प्रतिथाण्  वि। २००४

परमार्थदीप  श्रीज्योतिर्मय आचार्यचरण शङ्कर के बोल।
कलिमलहर कल्याणी प्रस्तुत वाक्सुधाधारा अनमोल॥

समर्पण
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मायावादनिराशराशिशरणं सत्कारणाधीश्वरम्।
सद्गुण्याद्यखिलप्रभावविभवं वेदैकवेद्यं विभुम्।
ब्रह्मानन्द कदम्बपुष्पलसितं श्रीशङ्कराचार्यकम्।
याचेऽहं सततं शरण्यममलं मुक्त्यैककल्पद्रुमम्॥

"maayaavaadaniraasharaashisharaNaM satkaaraNaadhiishvaram .
sadguNyaadyakhilaprabhaavavibhavaM vedaikavedyaM vibhum .
brahmaananda kadambapushhpalasitaM shriishaN^karaachaaryakam .
yaache.ahaM satataM sharaNyamamalaM muktyaikakalpadrumam .."

'I always take refuge in Brahmananda, in Shri Shankaracharya
who is shining like Kadamba flowers,
who through the doctrine of Maya (Vedanta) gives shelter to the multitude of hopeless people,
who is the true being, the cause of creation, the Supreme Lord,
whose greatness consists in all powers beginning with the quality of goodness,
who is to be known through Veda only, who is all-pervading,
who is spotless and pure and the one wish-fulfilling tree for gaining liberation.'

इसे स्वीकार करें।
त्वदीयं वस्तु गोविन्द  तुभ्यमेव समर्पये।
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आपकी कृपा - कोर से इससे प्रादूर्भूत अरुणलालिमा की सुमनोहर रक्तकुंकुम रश्मियों से देदीप्यमान पथ की दिव्य - प्रभा हमारे साधन - विहीन  भक्तिहीन  अग़्यान - गाढ़ान्ध - तमोपहित हृदयों को आलोकित कर चिरन्तन ज्योति प्रदान करेगी।

अनुक्रमणिका

Guru Dev
Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

Back in 1947 a Hindi book was published called श्रीशंकराचार्य-वाक्सुधा 'Shri Shankaracharya Vaksudha', credited to Shri 108 Dandi Swami Adwaitanand Saraswati.

Shri 1008 Dandi Swami
Advaitanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj Himalaya-vasi

The book was compiled and edited by one Mahesh Prasad Ji (the name which Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was known by then). It is a slim volume of some 135 odd pages giving a profile of the life and teachings of Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, later better known as Guru Dev.

It seems it was this publication that formed the basis of the later Hindi biography entitled श्री ज्योतिष्पीठोद्धारक 'Shri Jyotishpeethoddharaka', published in 1965. It is said that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi claimed the work as his own, allegedly telling an assistant, Australian TM teacher Edna Linnel, ‘We shall see what they have done with it.’

'Enjoy Dear Blessed Edna Linnel !
Wisdom is the light of God from within.'

जय गुरुदेव

(Jaya Gurudeva)

[Dedication written by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Edna Linnel's copy of Bhagavad Gita]

Seemingly 'Shri Shankaracharya Vaksudha' is the work to which Maharishi was referring to in 1968 when he said ‘I have written long ago, maybe twenty or thirty years ago, I wrote a book, a small cover, about two hundred pages, and that was in Hindi, account of Guru Dev. But in that description, hear what I said! Not the instances were cited, but the inferences drawn from the instances. Not the instances make history!’.

To Guru Dev webpages