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 154
देहोऽयमन्नभवनोऽन्नमायास्तु कोशः
चान्नेन जीवति विनश्यति तद्विहीनः ।
त्वक्चर्ममांसरुधिरास्थिपुरीषराशिः
नायं स्वयं भवितुमर्हति नित्यशुद्धः ॥ १५४ ॥deho'yamannabhavano'nnaMāyāstu kośaḥ
cānnena jīvati vinaśyati tadvihīnaḥ |
tvakcarmamāṃsarudhirāsthipurīṣarāśiḥ
nāyaṃ svayaṃ bhavitumarhati nityaśuddhaḥ || 154 ||154. This body of ours is the product of food and comprises the material sheath; it lives on food and dies without it; it is a mass of skin, flesh, blood, bones and filth, and can never be the eternally pure, self-existent Ātman.
Notes:
[Product of food—that went to build up the parent-body.]