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 178
असङ्गचिद्रूपममुं विमोह्य
देहेन्द्रियप्राणगुणैर्निबद्ध्य ।
अहंममेति भ्रमायात्यजस्रं
मनः स्वकृत्येषु फलोपभुक्तिषु ॥ १७८ ॥asaṅgacidrūpamamuṃ vimohya
dehendriyaprāṇaguṇairnibaddhya |
ahaṃmameti bhraMāyātyajasraṃ
manaḥ svakṛtyeṣu phalopabhuktiṣu || 178 ||178. Deluding the Jīva, which is unattached Pure Intelligence, and binding it by the ties of body, organs and Prāṇas, the mind causes it to wander, with ideas of "I" and "mine", amidst the varied enjoyment of results achieved by itself.
Notes:
[Binding...... Pranas—strictly speaking, it is our attachment for these that binds us. ]