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 477
स्वानुभूत्या स्वयं ज्ञात्वा स्वमात्मानमखण्डितम् ।
संसिद्धः संमुखं तिष्ठेन्निर्विकल्पात्मनात्मनि ॥ ४७७ ॥svānubhūtyā svayaṃ jñātvā svamātmānamakhaṇḍitam |
saṃsiddhaḥ saṃmukhaṃ tiṣṭhennirvikalpātmanātmani || 477 ||477. Himself knowing his indivisible Self through his own realisation and thus becoming perfect, a man should stand face to face with the Ātman, with his mind free from dualistic ideas.
Notes:
[Face to face—i. e. must live in Atman.]