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 506
रवेर्यथा कर्मणि साक्षिभावो
वन्हेर्यथा दाहनियामकत्वम् ।
रज्जोर्यथारोपितवस्तुसङ्गः
तथैव कूटस्थचिदात्मनो मे ॥ ५0६ ॥raveryathā karmaṇi sākṣibhāvo
vanheryathā dāhaniyāmakatvam |
rajjoryathāropitavastusaṅgaḥ
tathaiva kūṭasthacidātmano me || 506 ||506. As the sun is a mere witness of men’s actions, as fire burns everything without distinction, and as the rope is related to a thing superimposed on it, so am I, the unchangeable Self, the Intelligence Absolute.
Notes:
[Sun......actions—people do good and bad deeds with the help ot sunlight, but the sun is unaffected by their results.
Rope etc.—the relation of the rope to the snake is wholly fictitious.
So am I etc.—unconcerned with the activities of the Buddhi. ]