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 536
न खिद्यते नो विषयैः प्रमोदते
न सज्जते नापि विरज्यते च ।
स्वस्मिन्सदा क्रीडति नन्दति स्वयं
निरन्तरानन्दरसेन तृप्तः ॥ ५३६ ॥na khidyate no viṣayaiḥ pramodate
na sajjate nāpi virajyate ca |
svasminsadā krīḍati nandati svayaṃ
nirantarānandarasena tṛptaḥ || 536 ||536. Satisfied with undiluted, constant Bliss, he is neither grieved nor elated by sense- objects, is neither attached nor averse to them, but always disports with the Self and takes pleasure therein.
Notes:
[Undiluted &c.—i. e. Absolute Bliss.
Neither attached &c—Compare Gita XIV. 22-25.]