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 鈥楢dvaita Vedanta鈥�, 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 45
啶掂啶︵ぞ啶ㄠ啶むぞ啶班啶ムさ啶苦啶距ぐ啷囙ぃ 啶溹ぞ啶い啷� 啶溹啶炧ぞ啶ㄠぎ啷佮い啷嵿い啶ぎ啷� 啷�
啶む啶ㄠぞ啶む啶え啷嵿い啶苦啶膏啶膏ぞ啶班う啷佮啶栢え啶距ざ啷� 啶さ啶む啶え啷� 啷� 啷カ 啷�ved膩nt膩rthavic膩re峁嘺 j膩yate j帽膩namuttamam |
ten膩tyantikasa峁僺膩radu岣han膩艣o bhavatyanu || 45 ||45. Reasoning on the meaning of the Vedanta leads to efficient knowledge, which is immediately followed by the total annihilation of the misery born of relative existence.
Notes:
[Efficient knowledge鈥攖he highest knowledge, which consists of the realisation of the identity of the individual soul with Brahman.]