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 121
सर्वप्रकारप्रमितिप्रशान्तिः
बीजात्मनावस्थितिरेव बुद्धेः ।
सुषुप्तिरेतस्य किल प्रतीतिः
किंचिन्न वेद्मीति जगत्प्रसिद्धेः ॥ १२१ ॥sarvaprakārapramitipraśāntiḥ
bījātmanāvasthitireva buddheḥ |
suṣuptiretasya kila pratītiḥ
kiṃcinna vedmīti jagatprasiddheḥ || 121 ||121. Profound sleep is the cessation of all kinds of perception, in which the mind remains in a subtle seed-like form. The test of this is the universal verdict, "I did not know anything then".
Notes:
[All kinds of perception—including remembrance and delusion also.
The universal verdict &c.—This negative remembrance proves the continuity of the mind even in the sushupti state.]