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 470
सत्समृद्धं स्वतःसिद्धं शुद्धं बुद्धमनीदृशम् ।
एकमेवाद्वयं ब्रह्म नेह नानास्ति किंचन ॥ ४७0 ॥satsamṛddhaṃ svataḥsiddhaṃ śuddhaṃ buddhamanīdṛśam |
ekamevādvayaṃ brahma neha nānāsti kiṃcana || 470 ||470. There is only Brahman, the One without a second, the Reality, the One without a second, the Reality, effulgent, self-existent, pure, intelligent, and unlike anything finite; there is no duality whatsoever in It.
Notes:
[Intelligent—strictly speaking, Intelligence Absolute.
Unlike &c.—It has got no exemplar.
The repetition is for emphasising the Absolute, Unconditioned aspect of Brahman.]