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 563
पाषाणवृक्षतृणधान्यकडङ्कराद्या
दग्धा भवन्ति हि मृदेव यथा तथैव ।
देहेन्द्रियासुमन आदि समस्तदृश्यं
ज्ञानाग्निदग्धमुपयाति परात्मभावम् ॥ ५६३ ॥pāṣāṇavṛkṣatṛṇadhānyakaḍaṅkarādyā
dagdhā bhavanti hi mṛdeva yathā tathaiva |
dehendriyāsumana ādi samastadṛśyaṃ
jñānāgnidagdhamupayāti parātmabhāvam || 563 ||563. Just as a stone, a tree, grass, paddy, husk, etc., when burnt, are reduced to earth (ashes) only, even so the whole objective universe comprising the body, organs, Prāṇas, Manas and so forth, are, when burnt by the fire of realisation, reduced to the Supreme Self.
Notes:
[Husk; Another reading for “ka?ṅkara (?)” is; “kadābhra (?)”
Kata is a kind of straw, and the otner word means cloth.]