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 376
वैराग्यान्न परं सुखस्य जनकं पश्यामि वश्यात्मनः
तच्चेच्छुद्धतरात्मबोधसहितं स्वाराज्यसाम्राज्यधुक् ।
एतद्द्वारमजस्रमुक्तियुवतेर्यस्मात्त्वमस्मात्परं
सर्वत्रास्पृहया सदात्मनि सदा प्रज्ञां कुरु श्रेयसे ॥ ३७६ ॥vairāgyānna paraṃ sukhasya janakaṃ paśyāmi vaśyātmanaḥ
taccecchuddhatarātmabodhasahitaṃ svārājyasāmrājyadhuk |
etaddvāramajasramuktiyuvateryasmāttvamasmātparaṃ
sarvatrāspṛhayā sadātmani sadā prajñāṃ kuru śreyase || 376 ||376. For the man of self-control I do not find any better instrument of happiness than dispassion, and if that is coupled with a highly pure realisation of the Self, it conduces to the suzerainty of absolute Independence; and since this is the gateway to the damsel of everlasting liberation, therefore for thy welfare, be dispassionate both internally and externally, and always fix thy mind on the eternal Self.
Notes:
[Suzerainty etc.—Because the Realisation of the Self, the One without a second, is the real independence, for it is everlasting Bliss and there is nobody to dispute it.]