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 309
समूलकृत्तोऽपि महानहं पुनः
व्युल्लेखितः स्याद्यदि चेतसा क्षणम् ।
संजीव्य विक्षेपशतं करोति
नभस्वता प्रावृषि वारिदो यथा ॥ ३0९ ॥samūlakṛtto'pi mahānahaṃ punaḥ
vyullekhitaḥ syādyadi cetasā kṣaṇam |
saṃjīvya vikṣepaśataṃ karoti
nabhasvatā prāvṛṣi vārido yathā || 309 ||309. Even though completely rooted out, this terrible egoism, if revolved in the mind even for a moment, returns to life and creates hundreds of mischiefs, like a cloud ushered in by the wind during the rainy season.