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 415
समूलमेतत्परिदाह्य वन्हौ
सदात्मनि ब्रह्मणि निर्विकल्पे ।
ततः स्वयं नित्यविशुद्धबोधा
नन्दात्मना तिष्ठति विद्वरिष्ठः ॥ ४१५ ॥samūlametatparidāhya vanhau
sadātmani brahmaṇi nirvikalpe |
tataḥ svayaṃ nityaviśuddhabodhā
nandātmanā tiṣṭhati vidvariṣṭhaḥ || 415 ||415. Burning all this, with its very root, in the fire of Brahman, the Eternal and Absolute Self, the truly wise man thereafter remains alone, as the Ātman, the eternal, pure Knowledge and Bliss.
Notes:
[All this—the objective universe—the not-Self.
Root—i. e. Nescience. ]