Vivekachudamani
by Shankara | 1921 | 49,785 words | ISBN-13: 9788175051065
The Vivekachudamani is a collection of poetical couplets authored by Shankara around the eighth century. The philosophical school this compilation attempts to expose is called ‘Advaita Vedanta’, or non-dualism, one of the classical orthodox philosophies of Hinduism. The book teaches Viveka: discrimination between the real and the unreal. Shankara d...
Verse 128
येन विश्वमिदं व्याप्तं यं न व्याप्नोति किंचन ।
अभारूपमिदं सर्वं यं भान्त्यमनुभात्ययम् ॥ १२८ ॥yena viśvamidaṃ vyāptaṃ yaṃ na vyāpnoti kiṃcana |
abhārūpamidaṃ sarvaṃ yaṃ bhāntyamanubhātyayam || 128 ||128. By which this universe is pervaded, but which nothing pervades, which shining, all this (universe) shines as Its reflection. – This is That.
Notes:
[By whom etc.—Compare Chhándogya III. xi. 6, and Gita x. 42.
Who shining etc.—A reproduction of the sense of the celebrated verse occurring in Katha Upanishad I I. V. 15, Mundaka II. ii. 10, and Swetaswatara vi. 14.]