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 308
ततोऽहमादेर्विनिवर्त्य वृत्तिं
संत्यक्तरागः परमार्थलाभात् ।
तूष्णीं समास्स्वात्मसुखानुभूत्या
पूर्णात्मना ब्रह्मणि निर्विकल्पः ॥ ३0८ ॥tato'hamādervinivartya vṛttiṃ
saṃtyaktarāgaḥ paramārthalābhāt |
tūṣṇīṃ samāssvātmasukhānubhūtyā
pūrṇātmanā brahmaṇi nirvikalpaḥ || 308 ||308. Checking the activities of egoism etc., and giving up all attachment through the realisation of the Supreme Reality, be free from all duality through the enjoyment of the Bliss of Self, and remain quiet in Brahman, for thou hast attained thy infinite nature.
Notes:
[Egoism etc.—Egoism with its two forms, ‘I’ and ‘mine.’]