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 384
देहेन्द्रियप्राणमनोऽहमादिभिः
स्वाज्ञानकॢप्तैरखिलैरुपाधिभिः ।
विमुक्तमात्मानमखण्डरूपं
पूर्णं महाकाशमिवावलोकयेत् ॥ ३८४ ॥dehendriyaprāṇamano'hamādibhiḥ
svājñānakḷptairakhilairupādhibhiḥ |
vimuktamātmānamakhaṇḍarūpaṃ
pūrṇaṃ mahākāśamivāvalokayet || 384 ||384. One should behold the Ātman, the Indivisible and Infinite, free from all limiting adjuncts such as the body, organs, Prāṇas, Manas and egoism, which are creations of one’s own ignorance – like the infinite sky.