AUTHOR: Swami Nikhilananda. DESCRIPTION: An English translation of Sankaracarya's Atmabodha with notes, comments & introduction. When the true Self is known the jigsaw puzzle of the world gets solved, doubts end, and all misery vanishes. In Atmabodha, a lyric of sixty-eight mellifluous verses, Shankara gives us a lucid analysis of the nature of the Self and explains step by step how it can be realized. Swami Nikhilananda prefaces his delightful English translation with a masterly survey of the Upanishadic view of life. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH.