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 395
जहि मलमायाकोशेऽहंधियोत्थापिताशां
प्रसभमनिलकल्पे लिङ्गदेहेऽपि पश्चात् ।
निगमगदितकीर्तिं नित्यमानन्दमूर्तिं
स्वयमिति परिचीय ब्रह्मरूपेण तिष्ठ ॥ ३९५ ॥jahi malaMāyākośe'haṃdhiyotthāpitāśāṃ
prasabhamanilakalpe liṅgadehe'pi paścāt |
nigamagaditakīrtiṃ nityamānandamūrtiṃ
svayamiti paricīya brahmarūpeṇa tiṣṭha || 395 ||395. (First) destroy the hopes raised by egoism in this filthy gross body, then do the same forcibly with the air-like subtle body; and realising Brahman, the embodiment of eternal Bliss – whose glories the Scriptures proclaim – as thy own Self, live as Brahman.
Notes:
[Destroy &c.—Both the gross and subtle bodies are the coverings over the Atman, the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, and freedom consists ingoing beyond them. ]