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 550
स्त्रोतसा नीयते दारु यथा निम्नोन्नतस्थलम् ।
दैवेन नीयते देहो यथाकालोपभुक्तिषु ॥ ५५0 ॥strotasā nīyate dāru yathā nimnonnatasthalam |
daivena nīyate deho yathākālopabhuktiṣu || 550 ||550. As a piece of wood is drifted on to a high or low ground by the current, so is his body carried on by the momentum of past actions to the varied experience of their fruits, as these present themselves in due course.
Notes:
[Enjoyment—includes ‘suffering’ also.]