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 293
सर्वात्मना दृश्यमिदं मृषैव
नैवाहमर्थः क्षणिकत्वदर्शनात् ।
जानाम्यहं सर्वमिति प्रतीतिः
कुतोऽहमादेः क्षणिकस्य सिध्येत् ॥ २९३ ॥sarvātmanā dṛśyamidaṃ mṛṣaiva
naivāhamarthaḥ kṣaṇikatvadarśanāt |
jānāmyahaṃ sarvamiti pratītiḥ
kuto'hamādeḥ kṣaṇikasya sidhyet || 293 ||293. This objective universe is absolutely unreal; neither is egoism a reality, for it is observed to be momentary. How can the perception, "I know all", be true of egoism etc., which are momentary?
Notes:
[The perception......all—Man’s inherent belief in the omniscience of the Atman is meant.]