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 90
सर्वापि बाह्यसंसारः पुरुषस्य यदाश्रयः ।
विद्धि देहमिदं स्थूलं गृहवद्गृहमेधिनः ॥ ९0 ॥sarvāpi bāhyasaṃsāraḥ puruṣasya yadāśrayaḥ |
viddhi dehamidaṃ sthūlaṃ gṛhavadgṛhamedhinaḥ || 90 ||90. Know this gross body to be like a house to the householder, on which rests man’s entire dealing with the external world.