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 170
स्वप्नेऽर्थशून्ये सृजति स्वशक्त्या
भोक्त्रादिविश्वं मन एव सर्वम् ।
तथैव जाग्रत्यपि नो विशेषः
तत्सर्वमेतन्मनसो विजृम्भणम् ॥ १७0 ॥svapne'rthaśūnye sṛjati svaśaktyā
bhoktrādiviśvaṃ mana eva sarvam |
tathaiva jāgratyapi no viśeṣaḥ
tatsarvametanmanaso vijṛmbhaṇam || 170 ||170. In dreams, when there is no actual contact with the external world, the mind alone creates the whole universe consisting of the experiencer etc. Similarly in the waking state also; there is no difference. Therefore all this (phenomenal universe) is the projection of the mind.
Notes:
[The enjoyer etc.—i. e., the enjoyer, the enjoyable and enjoyment: subject, object and their coming into relation. ]