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 188
देहादिनिष्ठाश्रमधर्मकर्म
गुणाभिमानः सततं ममेति ।
विज्ञानकोशोऽयमतिप्रकाशः
प्रकृष्टसान्निध्यवशात्परात्मनः ।
अतो भवत्येष उपाधिरस्य
यदात्मधीः संसरति भ्रमेण ॥ १८८ ॥dehādiniṣṭhāśramadharmakarma
guṇābhimānaḥ satataṃ mameti |
vijñānakośo'yamatiprakāśaḥ
prakṛṣṭasānnidhyavaśātparātmanaḥ |
ato bhavatyeṣa upādhirasya
yadātmadhīḥ saṃsarati bhrameṇa || 188 ||188. It always mistakes the duties, functions and attributes of the orders of life which belong to the body, as its own. The knowledge sheath is exceedingly effulgent, owing to its close proximity to the Supreme Self, which identifying Itself with it suffers transmigration through delusion. It is therefore a superimposition on the Self.
Notes:
[Orders of life—Ashramas. ]