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 312
कार्यप्रवर्धनाद्बीजप्रवृद्धिः परिदृश्यते ।
कार्यनाशाद्बीजनाशस्तस्मात्कार्यं निरोधयेत् ॥ ३१२ ॥kāryapravardhanādbījapravṛddhiḥ paridṛśyate |
kāryanāśādbījanāśastasmātkāryaṃ nirodhayet || 312 ||312. When the effects are developed, the seed also is observed to be such, and when the effects are destroyed, the seed also is seen to be destroyed. Therefore one must subdue the effects.
Notes:
[Effects—actions done with selfish motives.
Seed—desire for sense-pleasures.
The next Sloka explains this.]