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ONE HUNDRED philosophical verses constituting a wisdom text of rare value was written by the Sree Narayana Guru (1854-1928) in Malayalam with suitable comments from one disciple of his.
The text is entitled Atma-Upadesa, which means 'teaching about or of the Self'. The subject of the work is contemplative self-realisation or knowing oneself as better understood in the Socratic context as pertaining to the central problem of wisdom itself.
Instead of being in the form of a dialogue between a teacher and a pupil, as is more usually the case either in India or in ancient Greece, the two counterparts involved in the wisdom-teaching situation are brought more unitively together here by the Guru. This is perhaps more consistent both with the matter and the method of the unitive wisdom treated in this 'century of verse' or satakam as it is named here.
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