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 554
जीवन्नेव सदा मुक्तः कृतार्थो ब्रह्मवित्तमः ।
उपाधिनाशाद्ब्रह्मैव सन् ब्रह्माप्येति निर्द्वयम् ॥ ५५४ ॥jīvanneva sadā muktaḥ kṛtārtho brahmavittamaḥ |
upādhināśādbrahmaiva san brahmāpyeti nirdvayam || 554 ||554. Through the destruction of the supervening adjuncts, the perfect knower of Brahman merges himself in the One Brahman without a second – which he had been all along – becomes very free even while living, and attains the consummation of his life.
Notes:
[Merges himself in Brahman which......all along (“brahmaiva san brahmāpyeti”)—Quotation from Brihadaranyaka IV. iv. 6]