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 380
एष स्वयंज्योतिरशेषसाक्षी
विज्ञानकोशो विलसत्यजस्रम् ।
लक्ष्यं विधायैनमसद्विलक्षणम्
अखण्डवृत्त्यात्मतयानुभावय ॥ ३८0 ॥eṣa svayaṃjyotiraśeṣasākṣī
vijñānakośo vilasatyajasram |
lakṣyaṃ vidhāyainamasadvilakṣaṇam
akhaṇḍavṛttyātmatayānubhāvaya || 380 ||380. Here shines eternally the Ātman, the Self-effulgent Witness of everything, which has the Buddhi for Its seat. Making this Ātman which is distinct from the unreal, the goal, meditate on It as thy own Self, excluding all other thought.