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 487
यत्कटाक्षशशिसान्द्रचन्द्रिका
पातधूतभवतापजश्रमः ।
प्राप्तवानहमखण्डवैभवा
नन्दमात्मपदमक्षयं क्षणात् ॥ ४८७ ॥yatkaṭākṣaśaśisāndracandrikā
pātadhūtabhavatāpajaśramaḥ |
prāptavānahamakhaṇḍavaibhavā
nandamātmapadamakṣayaṃ kṣaṇāt || 487 ||487. Whose glance, like the shower of concentrated moonbeams, has removed my exhaustion brought on by the afflictions of the world, and in a moment admitted me to the undecaying status of the Ātman, the Bliss of infinite majesty!
Notes:
[Afflictions......world—those arising from the body, from other creatures and from physical phenomena.]