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 305
अहंकारे कर्तर्यहमिति मतिं मुञ्च सहसा
विकारात्मन्यात्मप्रतिफलजुषि स्वस्थितिमुषि ।
यदध्यासात्प्राप्ता जनिमृतिजरादुःखबहुला
प्रतीचश्चिन्मूर्तेस्तव सुखतनोः संसृतिरियम् ॥ ३0५ ॥ahaṃkāre kartaryahamiti matiṃ muñca sahasā
vikārātmanyātmapratiphalajuṣi svasthitimuṣi |
yadadhyāsātprāptā janimṛtijarāduḥkhabahulā
pratīcaścinmūrtestava sukhatanoḥ saṃsṛtiriyam || 305 ||305. Give up immediately thy identification with egoism, the agent, which is by its nature a modification, is endued with a reflection of the Self, and diverts one from being established in the Self – identifying thyself with which thou hast come by this relative existence, full of the miseries of birth, decay and death, though thou art the Witness, the Essence of Knowledge and Bliss Absolute.
Notes:
[Modification—of Nescience, and therefore non-permanent.
Endued etc.—This makes it look intelligent.
Relative existence—Samsára or transmigration.]