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 392
क्रियासमभिहारेण यत्र नान्यदिति श्रुतिः ।
ब्रवीति द्वैतराहित्यं मिथ्याध्यासनिवृत्तये ॥ ३९२ ॥kriyāsamabhihāreṇa yatra nānyaditi śrutiḥ |
bravīti dvaitarāhityaṃ mithyādhyāsanivṛttaye || 392 ||392. The Śruti, in the passage, "Where one sees nothing else", etc., declares by an accumulation of verbs the absence of duality, in order to remove the false superimpositions.
Notes:
[Where one sees &c.—The reference is to Chhandogya VII. xxiv. 1,—“Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, knows nothing else—that is the Infinite.” That is, the Brahman is the only Reality there is.
False superimpositions—i. e. considering the Knower, Knowledge and Known as distinct entities. ]