Sankara composed a vast number of moving hymns filled with ardent devotion besides writing well-known commentaries and Advaita manuals. The book includes some of his hymns. It includes hymns to Dakasinamurti, it gives the quintessence of Advaita. It is addressed to God as Guru, by whose grace one recieves the teaching of non-duality. The excellence of body, mind and spirit are with the grace of Guru.