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 215
तत्साक्षिकं भवेत्तत्तद्यद्यद्येनानुभूयते ।
कस्याप्यननुभूतार्थे साक्षित्वं नोपयुज्यते ॥ २१५ ॥tatsākṣikaṃ bhavettattadyadyadyenānubhūyate |
kasyāpyananubhūtārthe sākṣitvaṃ nopayujyate || 215 ||215. That which is perceived by something else has for its witness the latter. When there is no agent to perceive a thing, we cannot speak of it as having been perceived at all.