About Swami Paramarthananda

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Swami Paramarthananda studied in Sandeepany Sadhanalaya of Chinmaya Mission. Took Sanyasa from Swami Dayananda (arsha vidya). He is devoted to both Masters – Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Dayananda. Swami later started taking Advaita Vedanta shastra classes in Chennai.

Swami was born on 18-05-1953 to Subramania Iyer and Parvathy in Palakkad, Kerala. He grew up with three older siblings and had his early schooling and college education in Palakkad, his home town.

In the year 1976 Swamiji joined a three year course in Vedanta offered by his Guru Swami Dayananda Saraswati at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Mumbai. There, he studied Sanskrit and the Sastras like the Bhagavad Gīta, principal Upanishads, Brahmasutras and several Prakarana-granthas. After the completion of his course he moved to Chennai as a Brahmachari on the directive of his Guru and started teaching Vedanta. He received Sannyāsa from his Guru in the year 1984 and continues to live in Chennai and teach at various centres in the city.

Official website: https://www.yogamalika.org

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About & List of Books

AI Model: It's using Deepseek V3 model with strong reasoning, which is crucial in Vedanta or Philosophical dialogues. 

Citations: Click the number (eg. 2.4) next to a statement to read the original text snippet.

Limitations: If you ask it to explain a certain verse (EG: “Explain BG 2.34”) — 50% of the time it'll pull the wrong verse. This is limitation of all RAG systems due to “needle in a haystack” problem. If you want to know meaning of a verse, at least copy-paste the verse and ask it to explain.

Here's the books it draws from whenever you ask it a question:

  1. Advaita Makaranda.pdf
  2. Aitareya Upanishad.pdf
  3. Atma Bodha.pdf
  4. Bhagavad Gita – Transcription.pdf
  5. Bhagavad Gita Summary.pdf
  6. Bhagawad Gita Summary Class Notes of 18 Chapters – ADVAIDAM.com.pdf
  7. BrahmaSutra (entire 555 sutras explained).pdf
  8. Brihadaranyaka Upanisad (contains all mantras).pdf
  9. Chandogya Upanisad.pdf
  10. Dakshinamoorthy Stotram.pdf
  11. Drg Drsya Viveka.pdf
  12. Introduction To Vedanta – Based on Tattva Bodha (Transcribed by Smt. Viji Natarajan).pdf
  13. Introduction to Vedanta (Swami Paramarthananda) – 2 (Class Notes) – Tattvabodha.pdf
  14. Isavasya Upanishad.pdf
  15. Jiva Yatra.pdf
  16. Kaivalya Upanishad.pdf
  17. Katha Upanisad.pdf
  18. Kenopanisad (Kena Upanishad).pdf
  19. Mandukya Bhasyam.pdf
  20. Mandukya Upanishad with Karika.pdf
  21. Manisha_Pancakam_Swami_Paramarthananda.pdf
  22. Meditations – Destructive Values to Eliminate.pdf
  23. Mundaka_Upanishad_SP.pdf
  24. Niti Satakam of Bhartrhari (Book on universal values prescribed by Dharma Sastra).pdf
  25. Pancadasi (CHAPTERS 1 TO 10 with summary of CHAPTERS 11 TO 15).pdf
  26. Pancadasi (From CH9 to CH10 + Summary of Chapters 11 to 15).pdf
  27. Profound Q & A on Vedanta (1-153).pdf
  28. Saadhana Chathushtayam – 4 Qualifications SUMMARY (advaitam.com).pdf
  29. Saddarsanam.pdf
  30. Self Knowledge & Emotional Problems (Paramarthananda Articles).pdf
  31. Sri-Kaivalyopanishad-Notes-Feb-2019 (VedantaStudents.com).pdf
  32. TaittiriyaFeb2018.pdf
  33. Talks on Kena Upanishad.pdf
  34. Tattvabodha.pdf
  35. Upadesa Saram (Ramana Maharishi text).pdf
  36. Upadesa_Sahasri (Magnum opus work of Shankara. 640 Slokas. Hightlight CH18.233).pdf
  37. Vairagya Shatakam.pdf
  38. Vakya-Vritti.pdf
  39. Vichara Sagaram (Chapters 1 to 6).pdf
  40. Vivekachudaamani_SP.pdf

Advantage of this AI is the output sticks solely to above expert content, rather then being contaminated by notions of misguided spiritual seekers – an issue when relying on public LLM's like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

How Does It Work?

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It works on a RAG system, which is like a search engine that takes one or more relevant topics and stiches them together into a cohesive paragraph + looks at the context of your question + applies reasoning. For example if you search for “what is meditation?” — it'll collect all information about meditation, definitions, practices, how-to's, do's, don'ts, etc.

System Prompt Used:

Extract concrete teachings about the subject with rich examples, metaphors, and analogies. Begin by defining key terms, then provide a logical flow that helps users connect emotionally. Use the original text's vocabulary, style, and tone. Pack each sentence with insights, eliminating fluff. Don't just tell, but show and explain concepts thoroughly using the source material's language. Connect ideas to support arguments from multiple perspectives. Provide brief explanations of specialized terms. Write in a warm, engaging tone as if speaking to a valued student you deeply care about. You MUST prioritize original text's wording, word choice, vocabulary – over your own synonyms.

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