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 256
षड्भिरूर्मिभिरयोगि योगिहृद्
भावितं न करणैर्विभावितम् ।
बुद्ध्यवेद्यमनवद्यमस्ति यद्
ब्रह्म तत्त्वमसि भावयात्मनि ॥ २५६ ॥ṣaḍbhirūrmibhirayogi yogihṛd
bhāvitaṃ na karaṇairvibhāvitam |
buddhyavedyamanavadyamasti yad
brahma tattvamasi bhāvayātmani || 256 ||256. That which is untouched by the sixfold wave; meditated upon by the Yogi’s heart, but not grasped by the sense-organs; which the Buddhi cannot know; and which is unimpeachable – that Brahman art thou, meditate on this in thy mind.
Notes:
[Sixfold wave—viz. decay and death, hunger and thirst, grief and delusion, which overtake the body and mind.]