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 406
अनन्यत्वमधिष्ठानादारोप्यस्य निरीक्षितम् ।
पण्डितै रज्जुसर्पादौ विकल्पो भ्रान्तिजीवनः ॥ ४0६ ॥ananyatvamadhiṣṭhānādāropyasya nirīkṣitam |
paṇḍitai rajjusarpādau vikalpo bhrāntijīvanaḥ || 406 ||406. That which is superimposed upon something else is observed by the wise to be identical with the substratum, as in the case of the rope appearing as the snake. The apparent difference depends solely on error.
Notes:
[Apparent difference—noticed by the ignorant.
Depends......delusion—i. e. lasts only so long as the delusion persists. ]