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 318
सद्वासनास्फूर्तिविजृम्भणे सति
ह्यसौ विलीनाप्यहमादिवासना ।
अतिप्रकृष्टाप्यरुणप्रभायां
विलीयते साधु यथा तमिस्रा ॥ ३१८ ॥sadvāsanāsphūrtivijṛmbhaṇe sati
hyasau vilīnāpyahamādivāsanā |
atiprakṛṣṭāpyaruṇaprabhāyāṃ
vilīyate sādhu yathā tamisrā || 318 ||318. When the desire for realising Brahman has a marked manifestation, the egoistic desires readily vanish, as the most intense darkness effectively vanishes before the glow of the rising sun.