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 158
शल्यराशिर्मांसलिप्तो मलपूर्णोऽतिकश्मलः ।
कथं भवेदयं वेत्ता स्वयमेतद्विलक्षणः ॥ १५८ ॥śalyarāśirmāṃsalipto malapūrṇo'tikaśmalaḥ |
kathaṃ bhavedayaṃ vettā svayametadvilakṣaṇaḥ || 158 ||158. How can the body, being a pack of bones, covered with flesh, full of filth and highly impure, be the self-existent Ātman, the Knower, which is ever distinct from it?