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 539
विमानमालम्ब्य शरीरमेतद्
भुनक्त्यशेषान्विषयानुपस्थितान् ।
परेच्छया बालवदात्मवेत्ता
योऽव्यक्तलिङ्गोऽननुषक्तबाह्यः ॥ ५३९ ॥vimānamālambya śarīrametad
bhunaktyaśeṣānviṣayānupasthitān |
parecchayā bālavadātmavettā
yo'vyaktaliṅgo'nanuṣaktabāhyaḥ || 539 ||539. The knower of the Ātman, who wears no outward mark and is unattached to external things, rests on this body without identification, and experiences all sorts of sense-objects as they come, through others’ wish, like a child.
Notes:
[No outward mark: Hence it is so difficult to know them.
Sense-objects—food etc.
As they come—in the working out of Prárabdha work.
Through others’ wish—as asked by his devotees or friends. ]