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 417
अखण्डानन्दमात्मानं विज्ञाय स्वस्वरूपतः ।
किमिच्छन् कस्य वा हेतोर्देहं पुष्णाति तत्त्ववित् ॥ ४१७ ॥akhaṇḍānandamātmānaṃ vijñāya svasvarūpataḥ |
kimicchan kasya vā hetordehaṃ puṣṇāti tattvavit || 417 ||417. Realising the Ātman, the Infinite Bliss, as his very Self, with what object, or for whom, should the knower of Truth cherish the body.
Notes:
[With what object &c.—A reproduction of the sense of Brihadaranyaka IV. iv. 12. He never
thinks of himself as the Bhoktá, the enjoyer, or Jiva.
Cherish—like men of the world. ]