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 391
सदेवेदं सर्वं जगदवगतं वाङ्मनसयोः
सतोऽन्यन्नास्त्येव प्रकृतिपरसीम्नि स्थितवतः ।
पृथक्किं मृत्स्नायाः कलशघटकुम्भाद्यवगतं
वदत्येष भ्रान्तस्त्वमहमिति मायामदिरया ॥ ३९१ ॥sadevedaṃ sarvaṃ jagadavagataṃ vāṅmanasayoḥ
sato'nyannāstyeva prakṛtiparasīmni sthitavataḥ |
pṛthakkiṃ mṛtsnāyāḥ kalaśaghaṭakumbhādyavagataṃ
vadatyeṣa bhrāntastvamahamiti māyāmadirayā || 391 ||391. All this universe known through speech and mind is nothing but Brahman; there is nothing besides Brahman, which exists beyond the utmost range of the Prakriti. Are the pitcher, jug, jar, etc., known to be distinct from the clay of which they are composed? It is the deluded man who talks of "thou" and "I", as an effect of the wine of Māyā.
Notes:
[Pitcher etc.—The difference, if any, is only in name and form.]