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 500
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?