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 551
प्रारब्धकर्मपरिकल्पितवासनाभिः
संसारिवच्चरति भुक्तिषु मुक्तदेहः ।
सिद्धः स्वयं वसति साक्षिवदत्र तूष्णीं
चक्रस्य मूलमिव कल्पविकल्पशून्यः ॥ ५५१ ॥prārabdhakarmaparikalpitavāsanābhiḥ
saṃsārivaccarati bhuktiṣu muktadehaḥ |
siddhaḥ svayaṃ vasati sākṣivadatra tūṣṇīṃ
cakrasya mūlamiva kalpavikalpaśūnyaḥ || 551 ||551. The man of realisation, bereft of the body-idea, moves amid sense-enjoyments like a man subject to transmigration, through desires engendered by Prārabdha work. He himself, however, lives unmoved in the body, like a witness, free from mental oscillations, like the pivot of the potter’s wheel.
Notes:
[Like......transmigration—only apparently. The Prárabdha has no meaning for the Jnani who is identified with the Self. See Slokas 453-463.
Pivot—which is fixed, on which the wheel turns.]