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...

विवेकवैराग्यगुणातिरेकाच्
छुद्धत्वमासाद्य मनो विमुक्त्यै ।
भवत्यतो बुद्धिमतो मुमुक्षोस्
ताभ्यां दृढाभ्यां भवितव्यमग्रे ॥ १७५ ॥

vivekavairāgyaguṇātirekāc
chuddhatvamāsādya mano vimuktyai |
bhavatyato buddhimato mumukṣos
tābhyāṃ dṛḍhābhyāṃ bhavitavyamagre || 175 ||

175. Attaining purity through a preponderance of discrimination and renunciation, the mind makes for Liberation. Hence the wise seeker after Liberation must first strengthen these two.

 

Notes:

[Discrimination—between Self and Non-Self.

Renunciation—of the Non-self. ]

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