Structural Key To Guru-Philosophy
The two anterior positions
Guru-Philosophy reconciles the two rival positions
A Guru’s philosophy is based on personal experience
Reason need not counter experience
The grand flux of psycho-cosmic becoming
Cosmic absorption into the plus side
Tree-structure evidence in verse
Other instances from Guru-literature suggesting structure
Structural limits if speculation and experience
The common integrated import of all varieties of wisdom

The Element Of Wonder
Indian Philosophy more scientific
The fuller scientific status of Sankara’s Advaita
Each verse and topic fits into an overall plan
The homogeneous matrix into which the vision of the Self is fitted
The nature of proofs
Proofs here as valid as science
Wonder has a place
Ascent implied in the Guru-philosophy
Bracketing of the wonder

Transcending The Paradox
Facing the paradox frontally
The ‘Oddness’ or ‘Mystery’ of paradox in mathematics and philosophy
The place of the paradox fully recognized in Guru-philosophy
Subtler paradoxes examined
Paradox is transcended by reconciling opposites

Horizontal And Vertical Value Worlds
Psycho-physical ambivalent alternating process
Mathematical factors
A tensorial psychology and cosmology
A space within the heart of the Upanishads and its structural implications
An alternative process in the Guru’s verses

The Self And Non-Self In Spiritual Progress
The Self placed in its axiological content
The Guru’s method of laying bare the content of the Self
The Self as seen within the context of its axiological counterparts
The axiological field of interest analyzed

The Universe Of Contemplative Discourse
One-many, part-whole, big-small are all extraneous
Percepts and concepts meet from opposite poles in the universe of discourse
Dualities merge in the neutrality of the Absolute Consciousness

The Methodology And Epistemology In Guru-Philosophy
Usual logic falls short of paradox and does not attain the Absolute
The compatibility or measurability of the Absolute is summarily rejected
Axiomatic and experimental certitude
Apperception resides at the core
A scientific epistemology is neutral to scepticism and belief

Protolinguistic Imagery
Crystalline or cryptic language of profound philosophy
Hypostatic and hierophantic versions of Reality
Examples of verses with structural implications
(a) Transcending initial paradox
(b) The double domain of concepts and percepts
(c) The apperceptive core of conscious becoming
(d) The spiritual progress of the Self
(e) Three perspectives of the same process
A living picture of the contemplative process

Ethics, Aesthetics And Religion In Guru-Philosophy
Obligatory injunctions different from free ethical principles
A dialectically conceived ethics
How aesthetics is derived from philosophy
Kindness as the common basis of religion and ethics
The non-dual basis of all morality
The ego as the epicentre for all conduct
The formation of closed static units in society and their unethical status
The One Religion of the Guru
(a) All religions have the overall aim of happiness
(b) The deep mutual adaptation implied in religious affiliation
(c) Rival religions really plead for the same value
(d) The nature of the irony implicit in religious rivalry

Appendix

“One Hundred Verses of Self-Instruction” by Narayana Guru

Full text translated from the Malayalam