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 342
आरूढशक्तेरहमो विनाशः
कर्तुन्न शक्य सहसापि पण्डितैः ।
ये निर्विकल्पाख्यसमाधिनिश्चलाः
तानन्तरानन्तभवा हि वासनाः ॥ ३४२ ॥ārūḍhaśakterahamo vināśaḥ
kartunna śakya sahasāpi paṇḍitaiḥ |
ye nirvikalpākhyasamādhiniścalāḥ
tānantarānantabhavā hi vāsanāḥ || 342 ||342. Even wise men cannot suddenly destroy egoism after it has once become strong, barring those who are perfectly calm through the Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Desires are verily the effect of innumerable births.
Notes:
[Nirvikalpa Samadhi—the highest kind of Samadhi in which all relative ideas are transcended and the Atman is realised as It is. The term has been already explained. ]