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 142
भानुप्रभासंजनिताभ्रपङ्क्तिः
भानुं तिरोधाय विजृम्भते यथा ।
आत्मोदिताहंकृतिरात्मतत्त्वं
तथा तिरोधाय विजृम्भते स्वयम् ॥ १४२ ॥bhānuprabhāsaṃjanitābhrapaṅktiḥ
bhānuṃ tirodhāya vijṛmbhate yathā |
ātmoditāhaṃkṛtirātmatattvaṃ
tathā tirodhāya vijṛmbhate svayam || 142 ||142. As layers of clouds generated by the sun’s rays cover the sun and alone appear (in the sky), so egoism generated by the Self, covers the reality of the Self and appears by itself.
Notes:
[Solely by itself— as if there were no Atman at all. But the clouds vanish subsequently, and so does egoism too. ]