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 164
देहात्मधीरेव नृणामसद्धियां
जन्मादिदुःखप्रभवस्य बीजम् ।
यतस्ततस्त्वं जहि तां प्रयत्नात्
त्यक्ते तु चित्ते न पुनर्भवाशा ॥ १६४ ॥dehātmadhīreva nṛṇāmasaddhiyāṃ
janmādiduḥkhaprabhavasya bījam |
yatastatastvaṃ jahi tāṃ prayatnāt
tyakte tu citte na punarbhavāśā || 164 ||164. Identifications with the body alone is the root that produces the misery of birth etc., of people who are attached to the unreal; therefore destroy thou this with the utmost care. When this identification caused by the mind is given up, there is no more chance for rebirth.
Notes:
[Compare Chhandogya Upanishad VIII. xii. i.]