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 174
तस्मान्मनः कारणमस्य जन्तोः
बन्धस्य मोक्षस्य च वा विधाने ।
बन्धस्य हेतुर्मलिनं रजोगुणैः
मोक्षस्य शुद्धं विरजस्तमस्कम् ॥ १७४ ॥tasmānmanaḥ kāraṇamasya jantoḥ
bandhasya mokṣasya ca vā vidhāne |
bandhasya heturmalinaṃ rajoguṇaiḥ
mokṣasya śuddhaṃ virajastamaskam || 174 ||174. Therefore the mind is the only cause that brings about man’s bondage or Liberation: when tainted by the effects of Rajas it leads to bondage, and when pure and divested of the Rajas and Tamas elements it conduces to Liberation.
Notes:
[A reminiscence of the second Sloka of Amrita-bindu Upanishad]