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...

सर्वात्मकोऽहं सर्वोऽहं सर्वातीतोऽहमद्वयः ।
केवलाक्षण्डबोधोऽहमानन्दोऽहं निरन्तरः ॥ ५१६ ॥

sarvātmako'haṃ sarvo'haṃ sarvātīto'hamadvayaḥ |
kevalākṣaṇḍabodho'hamānando'haṃ nirantaraḥ || 516 ||

516. I am the Universal, I am the All, I am transcendent, the One without a second. I am Absolute and Infinite Knowledge, I am Bliss and indivisible.

 

Notes:

[Indivisible—without break. ]

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