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 330
यदा कदा वापि विपश्चिदेष
ब्रह्मण्यनन्तेऽप्यणुमात्रभेदम् ।
पश्यत्यथामुष्य भयं तदैव
यद्वीक्षितं भिन्नतया प्रमादात् ॥ ३३0 ॥yadā kadā vāpi vipaścideṣa
brahmaṇyanante'pyaṇumātrabhedam |
paśyatyathāmuṣya bhayaṃ tadaiva
yadvīkṣitaṃ bhinnatayā pramādāt || 330 ||330. Whenever the wise man sees the least difference in the infinite Brahman, at once that which he sees as different through mistake, becomes a source of terror to him.