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 568
सदात्मैकत्वविज्ञानदग्धाविद्यादिवर्ष्मणः ।
अमुष्य ब्रह्मभूतत्वाद्ब्रह्मणः कुत उद्भवः ॥ ५६८ ॥sadātmaikatvavijñānadagdhāvidyādivarṣmaṇaḥ |
amuṣya brahmabhūtatvādbrahmaṇaḥ kuta udbhavaḥ || 568 ||568. For his bodies, consisting of Nescience etc., having been burnt by the realisation of the identity of the Jīva and Brahman, he becomes Brahman Itself; and how can Brahman ever have rebirth?
Notes:
[Bodies...... Nescience etc.—The three bodies are causal, subtle and gross. The first consists of Nescience; the second of seventeen things—five sensory organs, five motor organs, five Pranas (or, according to some, five fine elements or Tanmátras), Manas and Buddhi; and the last, consisting or the gross elements, is what we see. These three bodies make up the five Koshas or sheaths from the Anandamaya down to the Annamaya. The Atman is beyond them all.]