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 546
स्थूलादिसंबन्धवतोऽभिमानिनः
सुखं च दुःखं च शुभाशुभे च ।
विध्वस्तबन्धस्य सदात्मनो मुनेः
कुतः शुभं वाप्यशुभं फलं वा ॥ ५४६ ॥sthūlādisaṃbandhavato'bhimāninaḥ
sukhaṃ ca duḥkhaṃ ca śubhāśubhe ca |
vidhvastabandhasya sadātmano muneḥ
kutaḥ śubhaṃ vāpyaśubhaṃ phalaṃ vā || 546 ||546. Pleasure or pain, or good or evil, affects only him who has connections with the gross body etc., and identifies himself with these. How can good or evil, or their effects, touch the sage who has identified himself with the Reality and thereby shattered his bondage?