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 383
विशुद्धमन्तःकरणं स्वरूपे
निवेश्य साक्षिण्यवबोधमात्रे ।
शनैः शनैर्निश्चलतामुपानयन्
पूर्णं स्वमेवानुविलोकयेत्ततः ॥ ३८३ ॥viśuddhamantaḥkaraṇaṃ svarūpe
niveśya sākṣiṇyavabodhamātre |
śanaiḥ śanairniścalatāmupānayan
pūrṇaṃ svamevānuvilokayettataḥ || 383 ||383. Fixing the purified mind in the Self, the Witness, the Knowledge Absolute, and slowly making it still, one must then realise one’s own infinite Self.