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 228
मृत्कार्यभूतोऽपि मृदो न भिन्नः
कुम्भोऽस्ति सर्वत्र तु मृत्स्वरूपात् ।
न कुम्भरूपं पृथगस्ति कुम्भः
कुतो मृषा कल्पितनाममात्रः ॥ २२८ ॥mṛtkāryabhūto'pi mṛdo na bhinnaḥ
kumbho'sti sarvatra tu mṛtsvarūpāt |
na kumbharūpaṃ pṛthagasti kumbhaḥ
kuto mṛṣā kalpitanāmamātraḥ || 228 ||228. A jar, though a modification of clay, is not different from it; everywhere the jar is essentially the same as the clay. Why then call it a jar ? It is fictitious, a fancied name merely.
Notes:
[Fictitious......name merely—Quoted in sense from the Chhandogya Upanishad, Ch. VI.]