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...

यत्सत्यभूतं निजरूपमाद्यं
चिदद्वयानन्दमरूपमक्रियम् ।
तदेत्य मिथ्यावपुरुत्सृजेत
शैलूषवद्वेषमुपात्तमात्मनः ॥ २९२ ॥

yatsatyabhūtaṃ nijarūpamādyaṃ
cidadvayānandamarūpamakriyam |
tadetya mithyāvapurutsṛjeta
śailūṣavadveṣamupāttamātmanaḥ || 292 ||

292. That which is real and one’s own primeval Essence, that Knowledge and Bliss Absolute, the One without a second, which is beyond form and activity – attaining That one should cease to identify oneself with one’s false bodies, like an actor giving up his assumed mask.

 

Notes:

[False bodies—the gross, subtle and causal bodies, which are superimpositions upon the Atman.

Like an actor etc.—When the actor has played his part, he is simply a man. So the man of realisation is one with Brahman, his real Essence.]

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