Big congratulations Aleksandar! This looks like a major contribution. I can’t wait to read it. 

Jesse Knutson PhD

Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature 

Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures

University of Hawai'i, Mānoa

461 Spalding

It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living. Contrasted with this is a relationship to external reality which is one of compliance, the world and its details being recognized but only as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation. Compliance carries with it a sense of futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that nothing matters and that life is not worth living. In a tantalizing way many individuals have experienced just enough creative living to recognize that for most of their time they are living uncreatively, as if caught up in the creativity of someone else, or of a machine.--Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM Uskokov, Aleksandar via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear colleagues and friends,

With apologies for cross-posting, I am happy to share that my book “Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Language and the Highest Good in Early Advaita Vedānta” has been published by OUP in open access (the hardbound volume to follow in a month or two). Hopefully the title is sufficiently informative of the topic, but here is the webpage with more information. The pdf is available here.

The book is published as part of the Rocher Indology Series, edited by Patrick Olivelle. I wish to thank here the Rocher Foundation for including the book in the series and supporting financially its availability in open access, and to Professor Olivelle for seeing the volume through publication.

Best wishes,

Aleksandar

Aleksandar Uskokov

Senior Lector and Associate Research Scholar 

South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Yale University 

DUS: South Asian Studies 

Associate Editor: Journal of Indian Philosophy (Springer) 

    Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Language and the Highest Good in Early Advaita Vedānta

    The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction

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