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 295
विकारिणां सर्वविकारवेत्ता
नित्याविकारो भवितुं समर्हति ।
मनोरथस्वप्नसुषुप्तिषु स्फुटं
पुनः पुनर्दृष्टमसत्त्वमेतयोः ॥ २९५ ॥vikāriṇāṃ sarvavikāravettā
nityāvikāro bhavituṃ samarhati |
manorathasvapnasuṣuptiṣu sphuṭaṃ
punaḥ punardṛṣṭamasattvametayoḥ || 295 ||295. The knower of all changes in things subject to change should necessarily be eternal and changeless. The unreality of the gross and subtle bodies is again and again clearly observed in imagination, dream and profound sleep.
Notes:
[The unreality...... sleep'. Because the subtle Ì3
not perceived in the Sushupti state and the gross body in the dream and Sushupti states. ]