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...

देहेन्द्रियादावसति भ्रमोदितां
विद्वानहं तां न जहाति यावत् ।
तावन्न तस्यास्ति विमुक्तिवार्ताप्य्
अस्त्वेष वेदान्तनयान्तदर्शी ॥ १६२ ॥

dehendriyādāvasati bhramoditāṃ
vidvānahaṃ tāṃ na jahāti yāvat |
tāvanna tasyāsti vimuktivārtāpy
astveṣa vedāntanayāntadarśī || 162 ||

162. As long as the book-learned man does not give up his mistaken identification with the body, organs, etc., which are unreal, there is no talk of emancipation for him, even if he be ever so erudite in the Vedanta philosophy.

 

Notes:

[Body and organs etc.—In fact, the whole ob jective world.

Erudite &c.—Mere book-learning is meant. Unless he has realised the state of oneness he will be a mere talker, that is all. ]

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