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 143
कवलितदिननार्थे दुर्दिने सान्द्रमेघैः
व्यथयति हिमझंझावायुरुग्रो यथैतान् ।
अविरततमसात्मन्यावृते मूढबुद्धिं
क्षपयति बहुदुःखैस्तीव्रविक्षेपशक्तिः ॥ १४३ ॥kavalitadinanārthe durdine sāndrameghaiḥ
vyathayati himajhaṃjhāvāyurugro yathaitān |
aviratatamasātmanyāvṛte mūḍhabuddhiṃ
kṣapayati bahuduḥkhaistīvravikṣepaśaktiḥ || 143 ||143. Just as, on a cloudy day, when the sun is swallowed up by dense clouds, violent cold blasts trouble them, so when the Ātman is hidden by intense ignorance, the dreadful Vikṣepa Shakti (projecting power) afflicts the foolish man with numerous griefs.
Notes:
[Blasts trouble them—The root has also a secondary meaning, namely to cause to wander, which is also implied here. The verb in the last line of this verse has also a similar meaning. The foolish man is made to take sometimes very low bodies—that is the meaning.]