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 509
जले वापि स्थले वापि लुठत्वेष जडात्मकः ।
नाहं विलिप्ये तद्धर्मैर्घटधर्मैर्नभो यथा ॥ ५0९ ॥jale vāpi sthale vāpi luṭhatveṣa jaḍātmakaḥ |
nāhaṃ vilipye taddharmairghaṭadharmairnabho yathā || 509 ||509. Let this inert body drop down in water or on land. I am not touched by its properties, like the sky by the properties of the jar.
Notes:
[Not touched jar—Just as the sky seemingly enclosed in a jar is one with the infinite sky, and
is always the same whether the jar is broken or not, similarly is the Atman always the same despite Its apparent relation to the body.]