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 450
न नभो घटयोगेन सुरागन्धेन लिप्यते ।
तथात्मोपाधियोगेन तद्धर्मैर्नैव लिप्यते ॥ ४५0 ॥na nabho ghaṭayogena surāgandhena lipyate |
tathātmopādhiyogena taddharmairnaiva lipyate || 450 ||450. The sky is not affected by the smell of liquor merely through its connection with the jar; similarly, the Ātman is not, through Its connection with the limitations, affected by the properties thereof.
Notes:
[The Atman, like the sky, is always unattached, though the ignorant man superimposes connection with external things on It.]