Sri Dakshinamurthy Stotram I Summary of Adi Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta

The Dakshinamurti Stotra is a Sanskrit religious hymn to Lord Shiva provided to us by Adi Shankara. Here is a unique prayer, which is not only a prayer but the summary of all the philosophy that Adi Shankara has taught. It explains the metaphysics of the universe in the frame of the tradition of Advaita Vedanta. The Stotra takes the form of conceptual and philosophical statements. Singers : Harini Ivaturi & Rita Thyagarajan Veena : Phani Narayana Music : Sai Madhukar #SriDakshinamurthyStotram #HariniRita #StrummSpiritual In a compilation of ten stanzas Adi Shankara provides us a concise and vivid description of the philosophical significance of the form of Siva, giving the very essence of the Indian idea of epistemology. It differs from every other attempt in a very basic sense, in that it is holistic rather than purely reductionist. Sri Dakshinamurti is an incarnation of Shiva, the supreme god of knowledge. Sri Dakshinamurti is an aspect of Shiva as a guru of all ty