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 492
नाहमिदं नाहमदोऽप्युभयोरवभासकं परं शुद्धम् ।
बाह्याभ्यन्तरशून्यं पूर्णं ब्रह्माद्वितीयमेवाहम् ॥ ४९२ ॥nāhamidaṃ nāhamado'pyubhayoravabhāsakaṃ paraṃ śuddham |
bāhyābhyantaraśūnyaṃ pūrṇaṃ brahmādvitīyamevāham || 492 ||492. I am neither, this nor that, but the Supreme, the illuminer of both; I am indeed Brahman, the One without a second, pure, devoid of interior or exterior and infinite.
Notes:
[Neither this nor that—things that come under direct or indirect perception. It is the body which makes ideas of nearness or remoteness etc. possible.]