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 409
प्रकृतिविकृतिशून्यं भावनातीतभावं
समरसमसमानं मानसं बन्धदूरम् ।
निगमवचनसिद्धं नित्यमस्मत्प्रसिद्धं
हृदि कलयति विद्वान् ब्रह्म पूर्णं समाधौ ॥ ४0९ ॥prakṛtivikṛtiśūnyaṃ bhāvanātītabhāvaṃ
samarasamasamānaṃ mānasaṃ bandhadūram |
nigamavacanasiddhaṃ nityamasmatprasiddhaṃ
hṛdi kalayati vidvān brahma pūrṇaṃ samādhau || 409 ||409. The wise man realises in his heart, through Samadhi, the Infinite Brahman, which is devoid of the ideas of cause and effect, which is the Reality beyond all imaginations, homogeneous, matchless, beyond the range of proofs, established by the pronouncements of the Vedas, and ever familiar to us as the sense of the ego.
Notes:
[Proofs—other than Revelation, viz., direct perception and inference. Revelation also merely hints at It.
Established &c.—We cannot deny the Self for the Vedas speak of It.
Ever familiar—Nobody can ever conceive that he is not. For a discussion on the subject refer to the Sariraka Bháshya on the Brahma-Sutras I. i. 2.]