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 136
नियमितमनसामुं त्वं स्वमात्मानमात्मन्य्
अयमहमिति साक्षाद्विद्धि बुद्धिप्रसादात् ।
जनिमरणतरङ्गापारसंसारसिन्धुं
प्रतर भव कृतार्थो ब्रह्मरूपेण संस्थः ॥ १३६ ॥niyamitamanasāmuṃ tvaṃ svamātmānamātmany
ayamahamiti sākṣādviddhi buddhiprasādāt |
janimaraṇataraṅgāpārasaṃsārasindhuṃ
pratara bhava kṛtārtho brahmarūpeṇa saṃsthaḥ || 136 ||136.By means of a regulated mind and the purified intellect (Buddhi), realise directly thy own Self in the body so as to identify thyself with It, cross the boundless ocean of Samsara whose waves are birth and death, and firmly established in Brahman as thy own essence, be blessed.
Notes:
[Identity.........It—instead of with the gross, subtle and causal bodies.
Established......nature—By our very nature we are ever identified with Brahman, but through ignorance we think we are limited and so forth.]