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 289
स्वप्रकाशमधिष्ठानं स्वयंभूय सदात्मना ।
ब्रह्माण्डमपि पिण्डाण्डं त्यज्यतां मलभाण्डवत् ॥ २८९ ॥svaprakāśamadhiṣṭhānaṃ svayaṃbhūya sadātmanā |
brahmāṇḍamapi piṇḍāṇḍaṃ tyajyatāṃ malabhāṇḍavat || 289 ||289. Becoming thyself the self-effulgent Brahman, the substratum of all phenomena – as that Reality give up both the macrocosm and the microcosm, like two filthy receptacles.
Notes:
[Givu up......microcosm—ceasing to care for the whole universe, which is other than the Self, and which pales into insignificance before the majesty of the Self.]