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...

श्रुतेः शतगुणं विद्यान्मननं मननादपि ।
निदिंध्यासं लक्षगुणमनन्तं निर्विकल्पकम् ॥ ३६४ ॥

śruteḥ śataguṇaṃ vidyānmananaṃ mananādapi |
nidiṃdhyāsaṃ lakṣaguṇamanantaṃ nirvikalpakam || 364 ||

364. Reflection should be considered a hundred times superior to hearing, and meditation a hundred thousand times superior even to reflection, but the Nirvikalpa Samadhi is infinite in its results.

 

Notes:

[Infinite etc.—And therefore bears no comparison to them.]

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