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 353
अज्ञानहृदयग्रन्थेर्निःशेषविलयस्तदा ।
समाधिनाविकल्पेन यदाद्वैतात्मदर्शनम् ॥ ३५३ ॥ajñānahṛdayagrantherniḥśeṣavilayastadā |
samādhināvikalpena yadādvaitātmadarśanam || 353 ||353. When the Ātman, the One without a second, is realised by means of the Nirvikalpa Samadhi, then the heart’s knot of ignorance is totally destroyed.