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 157
देहतद्धर्मतत्कर्मतदवस्थादिसाक्षिणः ।
सत एव स्वतःसिद्धं तद्वैलक्षण्यमात्मनः ॥ १५७ ॥dehataddharmatatkarmatadavasthādisākṣiṇaḥ |
sata eva svataḥsiddhaṃ tadvailakṣaṇyamātmanaḥ || 157 ||157. That the Ātman as the abiding Reality is different from the body, its characteristics, its activities, its states, etc., of which It is the witness, is self-evident.
Notes:
[Characteristics—such as stoutness or leanness etc.
States—boyhood, youth etc. ]