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 502
न मे प्रवृत्तिर्न च मे निवृत्तिः
सदैकरूपस्य निरंशकस्य ।
एकात्मको यो निविडो निरन्तरो
व्योमेव पूर्णः स कथं नु चेष्टते ॥ ५0२ ॥na me pravṛttirna ca me nivṛttiḥ
sadaikarūpasya niraṃśakasya |
ekātmako yo niviḍo nirantaro
vyomeva pūrṇaḥ sa kathaṃ nu ceṣṭate || 502 ||502. There is neither engaging in work nor cessation from it, for me who am always the same and devoid of parts, there is neither engaging in work nor cessation from it. How can that which is One, concentrated, without break and infinite like the sky, ever exert?
Notes:
[Concentrated—like a lump of salt which consists of nothing but salt.]