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 386
ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्ता मृषामात्रा उपाधयः ।
ततः पूर्णं स्वमात्मानं पश्येदेकात्मना स्थितम् ॥ ३८६ ॥brahmādistambaparyantā mṛṣāmātrā upādhayaḥ |
tataḥ pūrṇaṃ svamātmānaṃ paśyedekātmanā sthitam || 386 ||386. The limiting adjuncts from Brahma down to a clump of grass are all wholly unreal. Therefore one should realise one’s own Infinite Self as the only Principle.
Notes:
[From Brahmá &fc.—Even the position of Creator is a passing- phase of the Self which is greater than all its conditions. ]