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 333
यतिरसदनुसन्धिं बन्धहेतुं विहाय
स्वयमायामहमस्मीत्यात्मदृष्ट्यैव तिष्ठेत् ।
सुखयति ननु निष्ठा ब्रह्मणि स्वानुभूत्या
हरति परमविद्याकार्यदुःखं प्रतीतम् ॥ ३३३ ॥yatirasadanusandhiṃ bandhahetuṃ vihāya
svayaMāyāmahamasmītyātmadṛṣṭyaiva tiṣṭhet |
sukhayati nanu niṣṭhā brahmaṇi svānubhūtyā
harati paramavidyākāryaduḥkhaṃ pratītam || 333 ||333. The Sannyasin should give up dwelling on the unreal, which causes bondage, and should always fix his thoughts on the Ātman as "I myself am This". For the steadfastness in Brahman through the realisation of one’s identity with It gives rise to bliss and thoroughly removes the misery born of nescience, which one experiences (in the ignorant state).