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 416
प्रारब्धसूत्रग्रथितं शरीरं
प्रयातु वा तिष्ठतु गोरिव स्रक् ।
न तत्पुनः पश्यति तत्त्ववेत्ता
(आ)नन्दात्मनि ब्रह्मणि लीनवृत्तिः ॥ ४१६ ॥prārabdhasūtragrathitaṃ śarīraṃ
prayātu vā tiṣṭhatu goriva srak |
na tatpunaḥ paśyati tattvavettā
(ā)nandātmani brahmaṇi līnavṛttiḥ || 416 ||416. The knower of Truth does no more care whether this body, spun out by the threads of Prārabdha work, falls or remains – like the garland on a cow – for his mind-functions are at rest in the Brahman, the Essence of Bliss.
Notes:
[Garland......cow—as a cow is supremely unconcerned about the garland put on her neck by somebody, so the man of realisation has got nothing to do with the body.]