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 165
कर्मेन्द्रियैः पञ्चभिरञ्चितोऽयं
प्राणो भवेत्प्राणमायास्तु कोशः ।
येनात्मवानन्नमयोऽनुपूर्णः
प्रवर्ततेऽसौ सकलक्रियासु ॥ १६५ ॥karmendriyaiḥ pañcabhirañcito'yaṃ
prāṇo bhavetprāṇaMāyāstu kośaḥ |
yenātmavānannamayo'nupūrṇaḥ
pravartate'sau sakalakriyāsu || 165 ||165. The Prāṇa, with which we are all familiar, coupled with the five organs of action, forms the vital sheath, permeated by which the material sheath engages itself in all activities as if it were living.
Notes:
[Organs of action—The brain centres which control speech, manual activity, locomotion, excretion and reproduction. See Sloka 92.
Material Sheath—described in Slokas 154 and following.
This activity which the Vital Sheath is here said to impart is again a borrowed one, as will appear from the last line of the next Sloka.
For a description of the Five Kosas (Sheaths) the reader is referred to the Taittiriya Upanishad, second Valli or chapter. ]