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 190
स्वयं परिच्छेदमुपेत्य बुद्धेः
तादात्म्यदोषेण परं मृषात्मनः ।
सर्वात्मकः सन्नपि वीक्षते स्वयं
स्वतः पृथक्त्वेन मृदो घटानिव ॥ १९0 ॥svayaṃ paricchedamupetya buddheḥ
tādātmyadoṣeṇa paraṃ mṛṣātmanaḥ |
sarvātmakaḥ sannapi vīkṣate svayaṃ
svataḥ pṛthaktvena mṛdo ghaṭāniva || 190 ||190. Though the Self of everything that exists, this Ātman, Itself assuming the limitations of the Buddhi and wrongly identifying Itself with this totally unreal entity, looks upon Itself as something different – like earthen jars from the clay of which they are made.
Notes:
[Buddhi—here stands for the Knowledge -Sheath.
As something different—as conditioned and bound, just an ignorant man may consider earthen pots as something distinct from the earth of which they are made. The wise man knows that the difference is simply due to name and form, which are creations of the mind.]