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 410
अजरममरमस्ताभाववस्तुस्वरूपं
स्तिमितसलिलराशिप्रख्यमाख्याविहीनम् ।
शमितगुणविकारं शाश्वतं शान्तमेकं
हृदि कलयति विद्वान् ब्रह्म पूर्णं समाधौ ॥ ४१0 ॥ajaramamaramastābhāvavastusvarūpaṃ
stimitasalilarāśiprakhyamākhyāvihīnam |
śamitaguṇavikāraṃ śāśvataṃ śāntamekaṃ
hṛdi kalayati vidvān brahma pūrṇaṃ samādhau || 410 ||410. The wise man realises in his heart, through Samadhi, the Infinite Brahman, which is undecaying and immortal, the positive Entity which precludes all negations, which resembles the placid ocean and is without a name, in which there are neither merits nor demerits, and which is eternal, pacified and One.
Notes:
[Entity which precludes &c.— Being the Absolute Reality there is no room in It for any kind of Abhava, such as Pragabháva (previous nonexistence, as of a jar before it was made), Pradhwamsabháva (cessation by destruction, as when the jar is broken to pieces) and the like.]