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 301
यो वा पुरे सोऽहमिति प्रतीतो
बुद्ध्या प्रकॢप्तस्तमसातिमूढया ।
तस्यैव निःशेषतया विनाशे
ब्रह्मात्मभावः प्रतिबन्धशून्यः ॥ ३0१ ॥yo vā pure so'hamiti pratīto
buddhyā prakḷptastamasātimūḍhayā |
tasyaiva niḥśeṣatayā vināśe
brahmātmabhāvaḥ pratibandhaśūnyaḥ || 301 ||301. That which has been created by the Buddhi extremely deluded by Nescience, and which is perceived in this body as "I am such and such" - when that egoism is totally destroyed, one attains an unobstructed identity with Brahman.
Notes:
[I am such and such—I am strong or weak.
learned or ignorant, happy or miserable and so forth. ]