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 167
ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि च मनश्च मनोमायाः स्यात्
कोशो ममाहमिति वस्तुविकल्पहेतुः ।
संज्ञादिभेदकलनाकलितो बलीयांस्
तत्पूर्वकोशमभिपूर्य विजृम्भते यः ॥ १६७ ॥jñānendriyāṇi ca manaśca manoMāyāḥ syāt
kośo mamāhamiti vastuvikalpahetuḥ |
saṃjñādibhedakalanākalito balīyāṃs
tatpūrvakośamabhipūrya vijṛmbhate yaḥ || 167 ||167. The organs of knowledge together with the mind form the mental sheath – the cause of the diversity of things such as "I" and "mine". It is powerful and endued with the faculty of creating differences of name etc., It manifests itself as permeating the preceding, i.e. the vital sheath.
Notes:
[Organs of knowledge—The brain centres which control sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. See Sloka 92. ]