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 226
सदिदं परमाद्वैतं स्वस्मादन्यस्य वस्तुनोऽभावात् ।
न ह्यन्यदस्ति किंचित्सम्यक्परमार्थतत्त्वबोधदशायाम् ॥ २२६ ॥sadidaṃ paramādvaitaṃ svasmādanyasya vastuno'bhāvāt |
na hyanyadasti kiṃcitsamyakparamārthatattvabodhadaśāyām || 226 ||226. It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of realisation of the highest Truth.
Notes:
[Nothing else—Everything but the Self is an appearance merely. ]