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 425
ब्रह्माकारतया सदा स्थिततया निर्मुक्तबाह्यार्थधीर्
अन्यावेदितभोग्यभोगकलनो निद्रालुवद्बालवत् ।
स्वप्नालोकितलोकवज्जगदिदं पश्यन् क्वचिल्लब्धधीर्
आस्ते कश्चिदनन्तपुण्यफलभुग्धन्यः स मान्यो भुवि ॥ ४२५ ॥brahmākāratayā sadā sthitatayā nirmuktabāhyārthadhīr
anyāveditabhogyabhogakalano nidrāluvadbālavat |
svapnālokitalokavajjagadidaṃ paśyan kvacillabdhadhīr
āste kaścidanantapuṇyaphalabhugdhanyaḥ sa mānyo bhuvi || 425 ||425. Freed from all sense of reality of the external sense-objects on account of his always remaining merged in Brahman; only seeming to enjoy such sense-objects as are offered by others, like one sleepy, or like a child; beholding this world as one seen in dreams, and having cognition of it at chance moments – rare indeed is such a man, the enjoyer of the fruits of endless merit, and he alone is blessed and esteemed on earth.
Notes:
[Only seeming......others &c.—When his attendants or friends offer him food or some such thing he takes it but half-consciously, his mind being deeply absorbed in Brahman.
The enjoyer......merit—i. e. a most fortunate man.]