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 182
मोक्षैकसक्त्या विषयेषु रागं
निर्मूल्य संन्यस्य च सर्वकर्म ।
सच्छ्रद्धया यः श्रवणादिनिष्ठो
रजःस्वभावं स धुनोति बुद्धेः ॥ १८२ ॥mokṣaikasaktyā viṣayeṣu rāgaṃ
nirmūlya saṃnyasya ca sarvakarma |
sacchraddhayā yaḥ śravaṇādiniṣṭho
rajaḥsvabhāvaṃ sa dhunoti buddheḥ || 182 ||182. He who by means of one-pointed devotion to Liberation roots out the attachment to sense-objects, renounces all actions, and with faith in the Real Brahman regularly practices hearing, etc., succeeds in purging the Rājasika nature of the intellect.
Notes:
[All actions—that are done with selfish motives.
Hear big etc.—i. e. hearing (from the lips of the Guru), reflection and meditation, of the highest Vedantic truth—the identity of the Jiva and Brahman. ]