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 356
समाहिता ये प्रविलाप्य बाह्यं
श्रोत्रादि चेतः स्वमहं चिदात्मनि ।
त एव मुक्ता भवपाशबन्धैः
नान्ये तु पारोक्ष्यकथाभिधायिनः ॥ ३५६ ॥samāhitā ye pravilāpya bāhyaṃ
śrotrādi cetaḥ svamahaṃ cidātmani |
ta eva muktā bhavapāśabandhaiḥ
nānye tu pārokṣyakathābhidhāyinaḥ || 356 ||356. Those alone are free from the bondage of transmigration who, attaining Samadhi, have merged the objective world, the sense-organs, the mind, nay, the very ego, in the Ātman, the Knowledge Absolute – and none else, who but dabble in second-hand talks.
Notes:
[dabble......talks.—Reading them from books etc.]