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 431
वर्तमानेऽपि देहेऽस्मिञ्छायावदनुवर्तिनि ।
अहन्ताममताभावो जीवन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् ॥ ४३१ ॥vartamāne'pi dehe'smiñchāyāvadanuvartini |
ahantāmamatābhāvo jīvanmuktasya lakṣaṇam || 431 ||431. The absence of the ideas of "I" and "mine" even in this existing body which follows as a shadow, is a characteristic of one liberated-in-life.
Notes:
[‘I and mine’—that ‘I’ am fair or ‘I’ am stout &c., or that this body is ‘mine.’
Shadow—See Sloka 413.]