An attempt is herein made to convey To The Ordinary Reader, Not Much Conversant In Sanskrit

 - And Not much accustomed to serious thinking, an idea of the contents of this invaluable book. The attempt is bound to be feeble 

- And the idea conveyed is bound to be faint as it is generally a very difficult task to convey in any other language the ideas expressed in a particular language

- All the same, this attempt will not be in vain if it succeeds in creating in the reader an ardent desire to acquire the necessary qualifications to study, and profit by the study of original itself

- All experience necessarily implies two essential factors an entity who experiences and an object that is experienced. To make experience possible, that entity must be a conscious being for no mere inert matter can have any sort of experience

- Just as a light can illumine only what is dark and not what is luminous in itself, the object of experience must be anti-thesis of the experiencer; that is it must be unconscious

- These two factors, the experiencer and the experienced, are called the I and the This. In the first set of five chapters, Sri Vidyaranya analyses the concepts of the I and the This, 

- points out the patent absurdity of confusing the one with the other, demonstrates that those two concepts are both really relative to each other and consequentially, if this relatedness is eliminated 

- there remains but one reality which is neither an I nor a this, and relies for his statement on the ultimate truth as declared by the unimpeachable teachings of the Upanishads