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 537
क्षुधां देहव्यथां त्यक्त्वा बालः क्रीडति वस्तुनिः ।
तथैव विद्वान् रमते निर्ममो निरहं सुखी ॥ ५३७ ॥kṣudhāṃ dehavyathāṃ tyaktvā bālaḥ krīḍati vastuniḥ |
tathaiva vidvān ramate nirmamo nirahaṃ sukhī || 537 ||537. A child plays with its toys forgetting hunger and bodily pains; exactly so does the man of realisation take pleasure in the Reality, without ideas of "I" or "mine", and is happy.