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 530
घटोऽयमिति विज्ञातुं नियमः कोऽन्ववेक्षते ।
विना प्रमाणसुष्ठुत्वं यस्मिन् सति पदार्थधीः ॥ ५३0 ॥ghaṭo'yamiti vijñātuṃ niyamaḥ ko'nvavekṣate |
vinā pramāṇasuṣṭhutvaṃ yasmin sati padārthadhīḥ || 530 ||530. To know that this is a jar, what condition, forsooth, is necessary except that the means of knowledge be free from defect, which alone ensures a cognition of the object?
Notes:
[Means of knowledge—e. g. the eye in the case of vision, and so on.]