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description: 'The Song Of Silence',is a commentary on Hastamala Geetam(approx:writtenaround 800 AD), a divine song , each verse of which is impreganted with AtmaJnana.While explaining the verses of the Upanishad-like Hastamalakeeyam, the author has dwelt upon in great detail the path of Atma Vichara or Self-Enquiry, which makes this commentary a profound work.Acharya Sankara, during one of his travels throughout India, was passing through a village called Sriveli in Karnataka.One of the Brahim inhabitants of the village brought his son,who had hitherto behaved like a mentally retarded boy.One look at the boy,Sankara understood that he was not a dumb child but a Realised soul established in Brahman.To Acharya's question about his where abouts, the boy, who had hitherto not spoken a word in his life,opened his mouth and lo! flowed a song expounding the highest truth of Self-Knowledge.This boy who was experiencing the truth like amalaka(gooseberry)in his palm came to be known as Hastamalaka and the song as Hastamalakeeyam or Hastamalaka Geetam
language: English
title: The Song Of Silence
publisher: Rishi Prakasana Sabha