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 533
भानुनेव जगत्सर्वं भासते यस्य तेजसा ।
अनात्मकमसत्तुच्छं किं नु तस्यावभासकम् ॥ ५३३ ॥bhānuneva jagatsarvaṃ bhāsate yasya tejasā |
anātmakamasattucchaṃ kiṃ nu tasyāvabhāsakam || 533 ||533. What indeed can manifest That whose lustre, like the sun, causes the whole universe – unsubstantial, unreal, insignificant – to appear at all?
Notes:
[An echo of the famous Sruti passage—“He shining, everything else shines, through His light all this is manifest.”]