Contents: Foreword. Chapter One: Introduction. 1. Preface. 2. Suresvara’s date. 3. Suresvara’s writings. 4. The problem of Suresvara’s identity. 5. A glimpse of Suresvara’s life story. Chapter Two: Bondage and liberation. 6. Bondage. 7. Moksa as the Summum Bonum. 8. Conclusion. Chapter Three: Metaphysics of the Advaita view of bondage. The concepts of Brahman, Atman and Maya. 9. The nature of Atman. 10. The nature of Brahman. 11. Maya and the Advaita concept of bondage. Chapter four: The Mimamsa view of Karma and the summum bonum of human existence. Chapter Five: The Advaita view of Jnana with special reference to Suresvara. Chapter Six: The relation of Jnana, and Karma to Moksa (Suresvara’s view). 12. Controversy with the Bhatta. 13. Controversy with the Samuccayavadin. 14. Controversy with the Prabhakara. 15. Controversy with the Prasamkhyanavadin. 16. The absence of scope for action in case of Jnanin. 17. Concluding remarks. Chapter Seven: Conclusion. Bibliography. The book explores the polemics between two rival schools of Indian philosophy Advaita Vedanta and Mimamsa regarding the method of attaining liberation. It focuses on the contribution made to this protracted debate by Suresvara, one of the direct disciples of Sankara. The polemics with Mimamsa especially on the question of the possibility and necessity of attaining liberation and the means to be employed in the process occupies an important place in Suresvara’s oeuvre. He returns to this debate time and again in the process of his long exegetical career and discusses it at considerable length in both his commentaries on the works of his master as well as his only independent treatise. A prolific writer and a devout Advaitin who spent his life serving the cause of his master and propagating and developing his vision of Vedanta, Suresvara is an extraordinary but often overlooked figure in the history of Indian thought. Drawing on all authentic works of Suresvara, the author puts together whatever this able student of Sankara has to say on the epistemology of Advaita and the methodology of attaining the final realization attempting to reconstruct the method of Advaita as conceived and propounded by Suresvara.