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 184
बुद्धिर्बुद्धीन्द्रियैः सार्धं सवृत्तिः कर्तृलक्षणः ।
विज्ञानमायाकोशः स्यात्पुंसः संसारकारणम् ॥ १८४ ॥buddhirbuddhīndriyaiḥ sārdhaṃ savṛttiḥ kartṛlakṣaṇaḥ |
vijñānaMāyākośaḥ syātpuṃsaḥ saṃsārakāraṇam || 184 ||184. The Buddhi with its modifications and the organs of knowledge, forms the VijñānaMāyā Kośa or knowledge sheath, of the agent, having the characteristics which is the cause of man’s transmigration.
Notes:
[Buddhi—the determinative faculty.
Modifications—such as Egoism etc.
Having......agent—thinking ‘I am the agent.’]