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 441
यत्र प्रविष्टा विषयाः परेरिता
नदीप्रवाहा इव वारिराशौ ।
लिनन्ति सन्मात्रतया न विक्रियां
उत्पादयन्त्येष यतिर्विमुक्तः ॥ ४४१ ॥yatra praviṣṭā viṣayāḥ pareritā
nadīpravāhā iva vārirāśau |
linanti sanmātratayā na vikriyāṃ
utpādayantyeṣa yatirvimuktaḥ || 441 ||441. The Sannyasin in whom the sense-objects directed by others are engulfed like flowing rivers in the sea and produce no change, owing to his identity with the Existence Absolute, is indeed liberated.
Notes:
[Directed by others—i. e. which others thrust upon him. Whatever comes within his knowledge but strengthens his identity with Brahman. Compare Gita II. 70.]