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 324
यथापकृष्टं शैवालं क्षणमात्रं न तिष्ठति ।
आवृणोति तथा माया प्राज्ञं वापि पराङ्मुखम् ॥ ३२४ ॥yathāpakṛṣṭaṃ śaivālaṃ kṣaṇamātraṃ na tiṣṭhati |
āvṛṇoti tathā māyā prājñaṃ vāpi parāṅmukham || 324 ||324. As sedge, even if removed, does not stay away for a moment, but covers the water again, so Māyā or Nescience also covers even a wise man, if he is averse to meditation on the Self.
Notes:
[The sedge has to be prevented from closing in by means of a bamboo or some other thing. Meditation also is necessary to keep Nescience-away. ]