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 512
अव्यक्तादिस्थूलपर्यन्तमेतत्
विश्व यत्राभासमात्रं प्रतीतम् ।
व्योमप्रख्यं सूक्ष्ममाद्यन्तहीनं
ब्रह्माद्वैतं यत्तदेवाहमस्मि ॥ ५१२ ॥avyaktādisthūlaparyantametat
viśva yatrābhāsamātraṃ pratītam |
vyomaprakhyaṃ sūkṣmamādyantahīnaṃ
brahmādvaitaṃ yattadevāhamasmi || 512 ||512. I am verily that Brahman, the One without a second, which is like the sky, subtle, without beginning or end, in which the whole universe from the Undifferentiated down to the gross body, appears merely as a shadow.
Notes:
[Appears......shadow—to the ignorant. ]