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 472
भवानपीदं परतत्त्वमात्मनः
स्वरूपमानन्दघनं विचार्य ।
विधूय मोहं स्वमनःप्रकल्पितं
मुक्तः कृतार्थो भवतु प्रबुद्धः ॥ ४७२ ॥bhavānapīdaṃ paratattvamātmanaḥ
svarūpamānandaghanaṃ vicārya |
vidhūya mohaṃ svamanaḥprakalpitaṃ
muktaḥ kṛtārtho bhavatu prabuddhaḥ || 472 ||472. Thou, too, discriminate this Supreme Truth, the real nature of the Self, which is Bliss undiluted, and shaking off thy delusion created by thy own mind, be free and illumined, and attain the consummation of thy life.
Notes:
[Thou, too, &c.—The Guru is addressing the disciple.
Undiluted—unmixed, i. e. absolute.
Illumined—lit. awakened, i. e. from this unreal dream of duality. ]