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 296
अतोऽभिमानं त्यज मांसपिण्डे
पिण्डाभिमानिन्यपि बुद्धिकल्पिते ।
कालत्रयाबाध्यमखण्डबोधं
ज्ञात्वा स्वमात्मानमुपैहि शान्तिम् ॥ २९६ ॥ato'bhimānaṃ tyaja māṃsapiṇḍe
piṇḍābhimāninyapi buddhikalpite |
kālatrayābādhyamakhaṇḍabodhaṃ
jñātvā svamātmānamupaihi śāntim || 296 ||296. Therefore give up the identification with this lump of flesh, the gross body, as well as with the ego or the subtle body, which are both imagined by the Buddhi. Realising thy own Self, which is Knowledge Absolute and not to be denied in the past, present or future, attain to Peace.
Notes:
[Imagined by Buddhi—Because they are not in Atman and our ignorance conjures them up through the Buddhi or determinative faculty.
Denied &c.—Because the Atman transcends time.]