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 297
त्यजाभिमानं कुलगोत्रनाम
रूपाश्रमेष्वार्द्रशवाश्रितेषु ।
लिङ्गस्य धर्मानपि कर्तृतादिंस्
त्यक्ता भवाखण्डसुखस्वरूपः ॥ २९७ ॥tyajābhimānaṃ kulagotranāma
rūpāśrameṣvārdraśavāśriteṣu |
liṅgasya dharmānapi kartṛtādiṃs
tyaktā bhavākhaṇḍasukhasvarūpaḥ || 297 ||297. Cease to identify thyself with the family, lineage, name, form and the order of life, which pertain to the body that is like a rotten corpse (to a man of realisation). Similarly, giving up ideas of agency and so forth, which are attributes of the subtle body, be the Essence of Bliss Absolute.
Notes:
[Rotten corpse—The body appears as living only through the erroneous identification of the Buddhi, and when that ceases on realisation, the body is nothing but a putrid corpse, to be shunned.
Attributes of the subtle body: The Jnani must realise his identity with the Atman alone. ]