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 552
नैवेन्द्रियाणि विषयेषु नियुङ्क्त एष
नैवापयुङ्क्त उप्दर्शनलक्षणस्थः ।
नैव क्रियाफलमपीषदवेक्षते स
स्वानन्दसान्द्ररसपानसुमत्तचित्तः ॥ ५५२ ॥naivendriyāṇi viṣayeṣu niyuṅkta eṣa
naivāpayuṅkta updarśanalakṣaṇasthaḥ |
naiva kriyāphalamapīṣadavekṣate sa
svānandasāndrarasapānasumattacittaḥ || 552 ||552. He neither directs the sense-organs to their objects nor detaches them from these, but stays like an unconcerned spectator. And he has not the least regard for the fruits of actions, his mind being thoroughly inebriated with drinking the undiluted elixir of the Bliss of Ātman.
Notes:
[For in the last line of the Sloka, there is another reading which should be translated as “including all minor joys.”]