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 186-187
अनादिकालोऽयमहंस्वभावो
जीवः समस्तव्यवहारवोढा ।
करोति कर्माण्यपि पूर्ववासनः
पुण्यान्यपुण्यानि च तत्फलानि ॥ १८६ ॥भुङ्क्ते विचित्रास्वपि योनिषु व्रजन्
नायाति निर्यात्यध ऊर्ध्वमेषः ।
अस्यैव विज्ञानमायास्य जाग्रत्
स्वप्नाद्यवस्थाः सुखदुःखभोगः ॥ १८७ ॥anādikālo'yamahaṃsvabhāvo
jīvaḥ samastavyavahāravoḍhā |
karoti karmāṇyapi pūrvavāsanaḥ
puṇyānyapuṇyāni ca tatphalāni || 186 ||bhuṅkte vicitrāsvapi yoniṣu vrajan
nāyāti niryātyadha ūrdhvameṣaḥ |
asyaiva vijñānaMāyāsya jāgrat
svapnādyavasthāḥ sukhaduḥkhabhogaḥ || 187 ||186-187. It is without beginning, characterised by egoism, is called the Jiva, and carries on all the activities on the relative plane. Through previous desires it performs good and evil actions and experiences their results. Being born in various bodies, it comes and goes, up and down. It is this knowledge sheath that has the waking, dream and other states, and experiences joy and grief.
Notes:
[Previous desires—desires of previous births.
Comes and goes, up and down—is born and dies, in higher or lower bodies. ]