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 541
कामान्निष्कामरूपी संश्चरत्येकचारो मुनिः ।
स्वात्मनैव सदा तुष्टः स्वयं सर्वात्मना स्थितः ॥ ५४१ ॥kāmānniṣkāmarūpī saṃścaratyekacāro muniḥ |
svātmanaiva sadā tuṣṭaḥ svayaṃ sarvātmanā sthitaḥ || 541 ||541. The sage, living alone, enjoys the sense-objects, being the very embodiment of desirelessness – always satisfied with his own Self, and himself present at the All.
Notes:
[As the All—knowing his identity with the whole universe, as Atman.]