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...

इति गुरुवचनाच्छ्रुतिप्रमाणात्
परमवगम्य सतत्त्वमात्मयुक्त्या ।
प्रशमितकरणः समाहितात्मा
क्वचिदचलाकृतिरात्मनिष्ठतोऽभूत् ॥ ४७९ ॥

iti guruvacanācchrutipramāṇāt
paramavagamya satattvamātmayuktyā |
praśamitakaraṇaḥ samāhitātmā
kvacidacalākṛtirātmaniṣṭhato'bhūt || 479 ||

479. Realising, at a blessed moment, the Supreme Truth through the above instructions of the Guru, the authority of the Scriptures and his own reasoning, with his senses quieted and the mind concentrated, (the disciple) became immovable in form and perfectly established in the Ātman.

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