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 473
समाधिना साधुविनिश्चलात्मना
पश्यात्मतत्त्वं स्फुटबोधचक्षुषा ।
निःसंशयं सम्यगवेक्षितश्चेच्
छ्रुतः पदार्थो न पुनर्विकल्प्यते ॥ ४७३ ॥samādhinā sādhuviniścalātmanā
paśyātmatattvaṃ sphuṭabodhacakṣuṣā |
niḥsaṃśayaṃ samyagavekṣitaścec
chrutaḥ padārtho na punarvikalpyate || 473 ||473. Through the Samadhi in which the mind has been perfectly stilled, visualise the Truth of the Self with the eye of clear realisation. If the meaning of the (Scriptural) words heard from the Guru is perfectly and indubitably discerned, then it can lead to no more doubt.
Notes:
[Samadhi— i. e. the highest or Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Scriptural words—such as “Thou art That,” and so on.
Discerned—realised in Samadhi.]