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...

गुणदोषविशिष्टेऽस्मिन्स्वभावेन विलक्षणे ।
सर्वत्र समदर्शित्वं जीवन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् ॥ ४३३ ॥

guṇadoṣaviśiṣṭe'sminsvabhāvena vilakṣaṇe |
sarvatra samadarśitvaṃ jīvanmuktasya lakṣaṇam || 433 ||

433. Looking everywhere with an eye of equality in this world, full of elements possessing merits and demerits, and distinct by nature from one another, is a characteristic of one liberated-in-life.

 

Notes:

[Looking &c.—The world is so full of diversity, yet the man of Realisation looks behind, and sees the one Brahman in everything.

Nature—preponderance of one or other of the. three Gunas. ]

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