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 191
उपाधिसंबन्धवशात्परात्मा
ह्युपाधिधर्माननुभाति तद्गुणः ।
अयोविकारानविकारिवन्हिवत्
सदैकरूपोऽपि परः स्वभावात् ॥ १९१ ॥upādhisaṃbandhavaśātparātmā
hyupādhidharmānanubhāti tadguṇaḥ |
ayovikārānavikārivanhivat
sadaikarūpo'pi paraḥ svabhāvāt || 191 ||191. Owing to Its connection with the super-impositions, the Supreme Self, even thou naturally perfect (transcending Nature) and eternally unchanging, assumes the qualities of the superimpositions and appears to act just as they do – like the changeless fire assuming the modifications of the iron which it turns red-hot.
Notes:
[Naturally perfect—Or the phrase “paraḥ svabhāvāt” may mean “transcending Nature”
Modifications—such as size, shape etc. ]