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 462-463
ज्ञानेनाज्ञानकार्यस्य समूलस्य लयो यदि ।
तिष्ठत्ययं कथं देह इति शङ्कावतो जडान् ॥ ४६२ ॥
समाधातुं बाह्यदृष्ट्या प्रारब्धं वदति श्रुतिः ।
न तु देहादिसत्यत्वबोधनाय विपश्चिताम् ॥ ४६३ ॥jñānenājñānakāryasya samūlasya layo yadi |
tiṣṭhatyayaṃ kathaṃ deha iti śaṅkāvato jaḍān || 462 ||
samādhātuṃ bāhyadṛṣṭyā prārabdhaṃ vadati śrutiḥ |
na tu dehādisatyatvabodhanāya vipaścitām || 463 ||462-463. "If the effects of ignorance are destroyed with their root by knowledge, then how does the body live?" – it is to convince those fools who entertain a doubt like this, that the Śrutis, from a relative standpoint, hypothesise Prārabdha work, but not for proving the reality of the body etc., of the man of realisation.