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 456
न तस्य मिथ्यार्थसमर्थनेच्छा
न संग्रहस्तज्जगतोऽपि दृष्टः ।
तत्रानुवृत्तिर्यदि चेन्मृषार्थे
न निद्रया मुक्त इतीष्यते ध्रुवम् ॥ ४५६ ॥na tasya mithyārthasamarthanecchā
na saṃgrahastajjagato'pi dṛṣṭaḥ |
tatrānuvṛttiryadi cenmṛṣārthe
na nidrayā mukta itīṣyate dhruvam || 456 ||456. He has no desire to substantiate the unreal objects, nor is he seen to maintain that dream-world. If he still clings to those unreal objects, he is emphatically declared to be not yet free from sleep.