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Contents
Preface .......................................................................................... i
Acknowledgements ................................................................... v
Guide to Transliteration symbols used in the book ............. vi
Empirical World: A Dual Perspective ................................................ 1
Goal of Life ........................................................................................................... 2
“Me versus Not-me” ......................................................................................... 4
Bheda – Our Lens to Life ................................................................................ 8
Bheda bhāva in action .................................................................................. 11
Proclamation of Scriptures and Vedānta.............................................. 14
Empirical life in conflict with Vedānta? ................................................ 15
Two sides of the reality ............................................................................... 18
Resolving the conflict ................................................................................... 22
Cultivating Brahma Bhāva .......................................................................... 24
Oneness – A Glimpse.............................................................................. 29
Our Journey to Brahma Bhāva .................................................................. 29
Manīṣā-pañcakam .......................................................................................... 30
Encounter with the Caṇḍāla ...................................................................... 31
Are we hypocritical? ..................................................................................... 34
Reasons for Class Consciousness ............................................................. 37
The Nature of Oneness ................................................................................. 41
Oneness: Levels of abstraction ................................................................. 45
Two Realities ............................................................................................ 49
Ādi Śaṅkārācārya’s works .......................................................................... 50
Caṇḍāla’s second clarification ................................................................... 51
Reflected Reality Vs Reality ....................................................................... 55
Constrained Reality vs Reality .................................................................. 58
Two Manifestations of the Reality .......................................................... 61
