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...

सर्वेषु भूतेष्वहमेव संस्थितो
ज्ञानात्मनान्तर्बहिराश्रयः सन् ।
भोक्ता च भोग्यं स्वयमेव सर्वं
यद्यत्पृथग्दृष्टमिदन्तया पुरा ॥ ४९५ ॥

sarveṣu bhūteṣvahameva saṃsthito
jñānātmanāntarbahirāśrayaḥ san |
bhoktā ca bhogyaṃ svayameva sarvaṃ
yadyatpṛthagdṛṣṭamidantayā purā || 495 ||

495. I alone reside as knowledge in all beings, being their internal and external support. I myself am the experiencer and all that is experienced – whatever I looked upon as "this" or the not-Self previously.

 

Notes:

[Support—being the substratum of ail super-impositions.

Previously—before Realisation. ]

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