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 397
स्वात्मन्यारोपिताशेषाभासर्वस्तुनिरासतः ।
स्वयमेव परं ब्रह्म पूर्णमद्वयमक्रियम् ॥ ३९७ ॥svātmanyāropitāśeṣābhāsarvastunirāsataḥ |
svayameva paraṃ brahma pūrṇamadvayamakriyam || 397 ||397. By the elimination of all apparent existences superimposed on the soul, the supreme Brahman, Infinite, the One without a second and beyond action, remains as Itself.
Notes:
[Apparent existences—Such as egoism etc..
As Itself—in Its own essence.]