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 485
न किंचिदत्र पश्यामि न शृणोमि न वेद्म्यहम् ।
स्वात्मनैव सदानन्दरूपेणास्मि विलक्षणः ॥ ४८५ ॥na kiṃcidatra paśyāmi na śṛṇomi na vedmyaham |
svātmanaiva sadānandarūpeṇāsmi vilakṣaṇaḥ || 485 ||485. I neither see nor hear nor know anything in this. I simply exist as the Self, the eternal Bliss, distinct from everything else.
Notes:
[See &c.—All finite ideas have ceased.
In this—state of Realisation.
Distinct from everything else— being the Subject, whereas all else are objects. ]