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...

आशां छिन्द्धि विषोपमेषु विषयेष्वेषैव मृत्योः कृतिस्
त्यक्त्वा जातिकुलाश्रमेष्वभिमतिं मुञ्चातिदूरात्क्रियाः ।
देहादावसति त्यजात्मधिषणां प्रज्ञां कुरुष्वात्मनि
त्वं द्रष्टास्यमनोऽसि निर्द्वयपरं ब्रह्मासि यद्वस्तुतः ॥ ३७७ ॥

āśāṃ chinddhi viṣopameṣu viṣayeṣveṣaiva mṛtyoḥ kṛtis
tyaktvā jātikulāśrameṣvabhimatiṃ muñcātidūrātkriyāḥ |
dehādāvasati tyajātmadhiṣaṇāṃ prajñāṃ kuruṣvātmani
tvaṃ draṣṭāsyamano'si nirdvayaparaṃ brahmāsi yadvastutaḥ || 377 ||

377. Sever thy craving for the sense-objects, which are like poison, for it is the very image of death, and giving up thy pride of caste, family and order of life, fling actions to a distance. Give up thy identification with such unreal things as the body, and fix thy mind on the Ātman. For thou art really the Witness, Brahman, unshackled by the mind, the One without a second, and Supreme.

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