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 560
पत्रस्य पुष्पस्य फलस्य नाशवद्
देहेन्द्रियप्राणधियां विनाशः ।
नैवात्मनः स्वस्य सदात्मकस्या
नन्दाकृतेर्वृक्षवदस्ति चैषः ॥ ५६0 ॥patrasya puṣpasya phalasya nāśavad
dehendriyaprāṇadhiyāṃ vināśaḥ |
naivātmanaḥ svasya sadātmakasyā
nandākṛtervṛkṣavadasti caiṣaḥ || 560 ||560. The destruction of the body, organs, Prāṇas and Buddhi is like that of a leaf or flower or fruit (to a tree). It does not affect the Ātman, the Reality, the Embodiment of Bliss – which is one’s true nature. That survives, like the tree.
Notes:
[Pranas—Vital forces.
Buddhi—the determinative faculty, may stand here for the mind itself.]