Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
Translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
Vedanta Publishing, Hollywood, California, 1978 138 pages
"Transcendental consciousness, or union with Brahman, can never be investigated by the methods of scientific research, since such research depends ultimately upon sense-perception, and Brahman is beyond the grasp of the senses. But this does not mean that we are doomed to doubt – or to blind trust in the experience of the seers -- until we have reached the Supreme Goal for ourselves. Even a little effort in meditation and the spiritual life will reward us with insight and conviction that this is really the way to truth and peace -- that we are not simply deceiving or hypnotizing ourselves -- that Reality is available. We shall have our ups and downs, of course, and our moments of uncertainty, but we shall always return to this conviction. No spiritual gain, however small, is ever lost or wasted." (p. 29)
-- quote submitted by Mona Bronson
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