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 511
सन्तु विकाराः प्रकृतेर्दशधा शतधा सहस्रधा वापि ।
किं मेऽसङ्गचितस्तैर्न घनः क्वचिदम्बरं स्पृशति ॥ ५११ ॥santu vikārāḥ prakṛterdaśadhā śatadhā sahasradhā vāpi |
kiṃ me'saṅgacitastairna ghanaḥ kvacidambaraṃ spṛśati || 511 ||511. Let there be changes in the Prakriti in ten, a hundred, or a thousand ways, what have I, the unattached Knowledge Absolute, got to do with them? Never do the clouds touch the sky!
Notes:
[Prakriti—the Undifferentiated, described in Slokas 108 and following. ]