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 163
छायाशरीरे प्रतिबिम्बगात्रे
यत्स्वप्नदेहे हृदि कल्पिताङ्गे ।
यथात्मबुद्धिस्तव नास्ति काचिज्
जीवच्छरीरे च तथैव मास्तु ॥ १६३ ॥chāyāśarīre pratibimbagātre
yatsvapnadehe hṛdi kalpitāṅge |
yathātmabuddhistava nāsti kācij
jīvaccharīre ca tathaiva māstu || 163 ||163. Just as thou dost not identify thyself with the shadow-body, the image-body, the dream-body, or the body thou hast in the imaginations of thy heart, cease thou to do likewise with the living body also.
Notes:
[Shadow-body—The shadow of thy body.
Image-body—the image or reflection of thy body, cast in water etc.
Dream-body—the body that thou mayst assume in dreams.
Living-body—the gross body, with the Pranas etc.]