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 553
लक्ष्यालक्ष्यगतिं त्यक्त्वा यस्तिष्ठेत्केवलात्मना ।
शिव एव स्वयं साक्षादयं ब्रह्मविदुत्तमः ॥ ५५३ ॥lakṣyālakṣyagatiṃ tyaktvā yastiṣṭhetkevalātmanā |
śiva eva svayaṃ sākṣādayaṃ brahmaviduttamaḥ || 553 ||553. He who, giving up all such considerations as - this is a fit object of meditation and this is not – lives as the absolute Ātman, is verily Śiva himself, and he is the best among Knowers of Brahman.
Notes:
[Fit object—and is therefore to be welcomed while the other is to be shunned.]