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 159
त्वङ्मांसमेदोऽस्थिपुरीषराशा
वहंमतिं मूढजनः करोति ।
विलक्षणं वेत्ति विचारशीलो
निजस्वरूपं परमार्थ भूतम् ॥ १५९ ॥tvaṅmāṃsamedo'sthipurīṣarāśā
vahaṃmatiṃ mūḍhajanaḥ karoti |
vilakṣaṇaṃ vetti vicāraśīlo
nijasvarūpaṃ paramārtha bhūtam || 159 ||159. It is the foolish man who identifies himself with a mass of skin, flesh, fat, bones and filth, while the man of discrimination knows his own Self, the only Reality that there is, as distinct from the body.