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 394
वक्तव्यं किमु विद्यतेऽत्र बहुधा ब्रह्मैव जीवः स्वयं
ब्रह्मैतज्जगदाततं नु सकलं ब्रह्माद्वितीयं श्रुतिः ।
ब्रह्मैवाहमिति प्रबुद्धमतयः संत्यक्तबाह्याः स्फुटं
ब्रह्मीभूय वसन्ति सन्ततचिदानन्दात्मनैतद्ध्रुवम् ॥ ३९४ ॥vaktavyaṃ kimu vidyate'tra bahudhā brahmaiva jīvaḥ svayaṃ
brahmaitajjagadātataṃ nu sakalaṃ brahmādvitīyaṃ śrutiḥ |
brahmaivāhamiti prabuddhamatayaḥ saṃtyaktabāhyāḥ sphuṭaṃ
brahmībhūya vasanti santatacidānandātmanaitaddhruvam || 394 ||394. What is the use of dilating on this subject? The Jīva is no other than Brahman; this whole extended universe is Brahman Itself; the Śruti inculcates the Brahman without a second; and it is an indubitable fact that people of enlightened minds who know their identity with Brahman and have given up their connection with the objective world, live palpably unifold with Brahman as Eternal Knowledge and Bliss.