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 210
पञ्चानामपि कोशानां निषेधे युक्तितः श्रुतेः ।
तन्निषेधावधि साक्षी बोधरूपोऽवशिष्यते ॥ २१0 ॥pañcānāmapi kośānāṃ niṣedhe yuktitaḥ śruteḥ |
tanniṣedhāvadhi sākṣī bodharūpo'vaśiṣyate || 210 ||210. When all the five sheaths have been eliminated by the reasoning on Shruti passages, what remains as the culminating point of the process, is the Witness, the Knowledge Absolute – the Ātman.
Notes:
[Sruti passages—those that describe the Atman negatively, by the Neti neti (not this, not this,) method.
Culminating point—beyond which the process of reasoning or analysis cannot be carried any farther.
What takes place then is termed the Aparokshd - nubhuti, Realisation, and the mind is then 3aid to be in the Samadhi state. ]