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 440
साधुभिः पूज्यमानेऽस्मिन् पीड्यमानेऽपि दुर्जनैः ।
समभावो भवेद्यस्य स जीवन्मुक्तलक्षणः ॥ ४४0 ॥sādhubhiḥ pūjyamāne'smin pīḍyamāne'pi durjanaiḥ |
samabhāvo bhavedyasya sa jīvanmuktalakṣaṇaḥ || 440 ||440. He who feels just the same when his body is either worshipped by the good or tormented by the wicked, is known as a man liberated-in-life.