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 321
प्रमादो ब्रह्मनिष्ठायां न कर्तव्यः कदाचन ।
प्रमादो मृत्युरित्याह भगवान्ब्रह्मणः सुतः ॥ ३२१ ॥pramādo brahmaniṣṭhāyāṃ na kartavyaḥ kadācana |
pramādo mṛtyurityāha bhagavānbrahmaṇaḥ sutaḥ || 321 ||321. One should never be careless in one’s steadfastness to Brahman. Bhagavan Sanatkumāra, who is Brahma’s son, has called inadvertence to be death itself.
Notes:
[Sanatkumara &c.—In the celebrated Sanatsujata-Samváda (chapters 40-45, Udyoga Parva, Mahabharata)—the conversation between Sanatkumara and King Dhritarashtra—there occur words like the following—“pramādaṃ vai mṛtyumahaṃ bravīmi”—“I call inadvertence itself as death,” &c.
Brahma’s son—and therefore a high authority on spiritual matters. ]