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 558
देहस्य मोक्षो नो मोक्षो न दण्डस्य कमण्डलोः ।
अविद्याहृदयग्रन्थिमोक्षो मोक्षो यतस्ततः ॥ ५५८ ॥dehasya mokṣo no mokṣo na daṇḍasya kamaṇḍaloḥ |
avidyāhṛdayagranthimokṣo mokṣo yatastataḥ || 558 ||558. For the giving up of the body is not Liberation, nor that of the staff and the water- bowl; but Liberation consists in the destruction of the heart’s knot which is Nescience.
Notes:
[Staff and water-bowl—the insignia of a Sannyasin. Mere outward giving up is nothing; they must have no place in the mind.
Heart’s knot—to bind as it were the Chit or Absolute Knowledge to the inert body.]