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 229
केनापि मृद्भिन्नतया स्वरूपं
घटस्य संदर्शयितुं न शक्यते ।
अतो घटः कल्पित एव मोहान्
मृदेव सत्यं परमार्थभूतम् ॥ २२९ ॥kenāpi mṛdbhinnatayā svarūpaṃ
ghaṭasya saṃdarśayituṃ na śakyate |
ato ghaṭaḥ kalpita eva mohān
mṛdeva satyaṃ paramārthabhūtam || 229 ||229. None can demonstrate that the essence of a jar is something other than the clay (of which it is made). Hence the jar is merely imagined (as separate) through delusion, and the component clay alone is the abiding reality in respect of it.