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 192
शिष्य उवाच
भ्रमेणाप्यन्यथा वास्तु जीवभावः परात्मनः ।
तदुपाधेरनादित्वान्नानादेर्नाश इष्यते ॥ १९२ ॥śiṣya uvāca
bhrameṇāpyanyathā vāstu jīvabhāvaḥ parātmanaḥ |
tadupādheranāditvānnānādernāśa iṣyate || 192 ||192. The disciple questioned: Be it through delusion or otherwise that the Supreme Self has come to consider Itself as the Jīva, this superimposition is without beginning, and that which has no beginning cannot be supposed to have an end either.
Notes:
[Jiva—individual soul, or the Self under self-imposed limitations.]