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 398
समाहितायां सति चित्तवृत्तौ
परात्मनि ब्रह्मणि निर्विकल्पे ।
न दृश्यते कश्चिदयं विकल्पः
प्रजल्पमात्रः परिशिष्यते यतः ॥ ३९८ ॥samāhitāyāṃ sati cittavṛttau
parātmani brahmaṇi nirvikalpe |
na dṛśyate kaścidayaṃ vikalpaḥ
prajalpamātraḥ pariśiṣyate yataḥ || 398 ||398. When the mind-functions are merged in the Paramātman, the Brahman, the Absolute, none of this phenomenal world is seen, whence it is reduced to mere talk.