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 475
बन्धो मोक्षश्च तृप्तिश्च चिन्तारोग्यक्षुदादयः ।
स्वेनैव वेद्या यज्ज्ञानं परेषामानुमानिकम् ॥ ४७५ ॥bandho mokṣaśca tṛptiśca cintārogyakṣudādayaḥ |
svenaiva vedyā yajjñānaṃ pareṣāmānumānikam || 475 ||475. Bondage, liberation, satisfaction, anxiety, recovery from illness, hunger and other such things are known only to the man concerned, and knowledge of these to others is a mere inference.
Notes:
[Inference: Others merely guess at them through signs.]