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 531
अयमात्मा नित्यसिद्धः प्रमाणे सति भासते ।
न देशं नापि कालं न शुद्धिं वाप्यपेक्षते ॥ ५३१ ॥ayamātmā nityasiddhaḥ pramāṇe sati bhāsate |
na deśaṃ nāpi kālaṃ na śuddhiṃ vāpyapekṣate || 531 ||531. So this Ātman, which is an eternal verity, manifests Itself as soon as the right means of knowledge is present, and does not depend upon either place or time or (internal) purity.
Notes:
[Means......knowledge—Realisation, to which direct perception, inference etc. are subordinate aids. ]