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 285
प्रतीतिर्जीवजगतोः स्वप्नवद्भाति यावता ।
तावन्निरन्तरं विद्वन्स्वाध्यासापनयं कुरु ॥ २८५ ॥pratītirjīvajagatoḥ svapnavadbhāti yāvatā |
tāvannirantaraṃ vidvansvādhyāsāpanayaṃ kuru || 285 ||285. So long as even a dream-like perception of the universe and souls persists, do away with thy superimposition, O learned man, without the least break.