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...

न मे देहेन संबन्धो मेघेनेव विहायसः ।
अतः कुतो मे तद्धर्मा जाक्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तयः ॥ ५00 ॥

na me dehena saṃbandho megheneva vihāyasaḥ |
ataḥ kuto me taddharmā jākratsvapnasuṣuptayaḥ || 500 ||

500. I have no connection with the body, as the sky with clouds; so how can the states of wakefulness, dream and profound sleep, which are attributes of the body, affect me? 

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