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 294
अहंपदार्थस्त्वहमादिसाक्षी
नित्यं सुषुप्तावपि भावदर्शनात् ।
ब्रूते ह्यजो नित्य इति श्रुतिः स्वयं
तत्प्रत्यगात्मा सदसद्विलक्षणः ॥ २९४ ॥ahaṃpadārthastvahamādisākṣī
nityaṃ suṣuptāvapi bhāvadarśanāt |
brūte hyajo nitya iti śrutiḥ svayaṃ
tatpratyagātmā sadasadvilakṣaṇaḥ || 294 ||294. But the real ‘I" is that which witnesses the ego and the rest. It exists always, even in the state of profound sleep. The Shruti itself says, "It is birthless, eternal", etc. Therefore the Paramātman is different from the gross and subtle bodies.
Notes:
[Exists always...... sleep -—as the witness- of all.
experience.
The Sruti &c.—The reference is- to the Katha> Upanishad, I., ü. l8.]