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 534
वेदशास्त्रपुराणानि भूतानि सकलान्यपि ।
येनार्थवन्ति तं किन्नु विज्ञातारं प्रकाशयेत् ॥ ५३४ ॥vedaśāstrapurāṇāni bhūtāni sakalānyapi |
yenārthavanti taṃ kinnu vijñātāraṃ prakāśayet || 534 ||534. What, indeed, can illumine that Eternal Subject by which the Vedas and Puranas and other Scriptures, as well as all beings are endowed with a meaning?
Notes:
[An echo of Brihadaranyaka II. iv. 14.
Other scriptures—may mean the Six Systems of Philosophy or anything else.]