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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...

द्रष्टुदर्शनदृश्यादिभावशून्यैकवस्तुन� �
निर्विकारे निराकारे निर्विशेषे भिदा कुतः � �00 �

draṣṭudarśanadṛśyādibhāvaśūnyaikavastuni |
nirvikāre nirākāre nirviśeṣe bhidā kuta� || 400 ||

400. In the One Entity devoid of the concepts of seer, seeing and seen � which is changeless, formless and Absolute � whence can there be any diversity? 

 

Notes:

[Seer &c.—of which the phenomenal world consists ]

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