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 503
पुण्यानि पापानि निरिन्द्रियस्य
निश्चेतसो निर्विकृतेर्निराकृतेः ।
कुतो ममाखण्डसुखानुभूतेः
ब्रूते ह्यनन्वागतमित्यपि श्रुतिः ॥ ५0३ ॥puṇyāni pāpāni nirindriyasya
niścetaso nirvikṛternirākṛteḥ |
kuto mamākhaṇḍasukhānubhūteḥ
brūte hyananvāgatamityapi śrutiḥ || 503 ||503. How can there be merits and demerits for me, who am without organs, without mind, changeless, and formless – who am the realisation of Bliss Absolute? The Shruti also mentions this in the passage "Not touched", etc.
Notes:
[Sruti &c.—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV. iii. 22—(In the state of profound sleep a man becomes) “Untouched by merits and untouched by demerits, for he is then beyond all the afflictions of the heart.” It may be added here that the experience of the Sushupta state is cited in the Sruti merely as an illustration of the liberated state, which is the real state of the Atman, beyond all misery. Vide Sankara’s commentary on the chapter. ]