Aatma Bodha by Aadi Shankaracharya

This book Atma Bodha or knowledge of Self (Atma) is an outcome of deep thinking about why we are born and living, influencing or getting influenced by every one around us, developing relations with them both physically and mentally, worrying for them and either losing them or leaving them temporarily due to life cycle and permanently by death. According to Bhagavatgeeta and Upanishads it is due to this Birth - Death Cycle.

For everyone this Birth Cycle is continuing. This is what worried the thinkers and philosophers. ''How long should we dwell in these cycles? Is there no end. Birth is the result of formation of organs of the Body and Mind. This is followed by the ''I'' feeling i.e., I am doing, I am successfull, I am suffering etc., This ''I'' feeling results in either ego and depression. This ego results in Karma which results in competition which results in worry. The worry results in disease. Disease results in Death which is followed by another birth. The cycle continues thus.