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...

मातापित्रोर्मलोद्भूतं मलमांसमायां वपुः ।
त्यक्त्वा चाण्डालवद्दूरं ब्रह्मीभूय कृती भव ॥ २८७ ॥

mātāpitrormalodbhūtaṃ malamāṃsaMāyāṃ vapuḥ |
tyaktvā cāṇḍālavaddūraṃ brahmībhūya kṛtī bhava || 287 ||

287. Shunning from a safe distance the body which has come from impurities of the parents and itself consists of flesh and impurities – as one does an outcast – be thou Brahman and realise the consummation of thy life.

 

Notes:

[Shunning—i. e. giving up all identification of the body which is very impure. ]

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