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 123
啶ぞ啶ぞ 啶ぞ啶ぞ啶曕ぞ啶班啶 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶� 啶す啶︵ぞ啶︵た啶︵啶灌お啶班啶え啷嵿い啶 啷�
啶呧じ啶︵た啶︵ぎ啶ㄠぞ啶む啶い啶む啶む啶掂 啶掂た啶︵啶оた 啶む啶掂 啶ぐ啷佮ぎ啶班啶氞た啶曕ぞ啶曕げ啷嵿お啶 啷� 啷оエ啷� 啷�m膩y膩 m膩y膩k膩rya峁� sarva峁� mahad膩didehaparyantam |
asadidaman膩tmatattva峁� viddhi tva峁� marumar墨cik膩kalpam || 123 ||123. From Mahat down to the gross body everything is the effect of M膩y膩: These and M膩y膩 itself know thou to be the non-Self, and therefore unreal like the mirage in a desert.
Notes:
[惭补丑补迟鈥� Cosmic Intelligence. It is the first to proceed from Prakriti or Maya. For the hierarchy vide Katha Upanishad I. iii. 10-11.]