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 300
啶呧す啶傕啶距ぐ啶椸啶班す啶距え啷嵿ぎ啷佮啷嵿い啶� 啶膏啶掂ぐ啷傕お啶啶お啶︵啶い啷� 啷�
啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶掂う啷嵿さ啶苦ぎ啶侧 啶啶班啶｀ 啶膏う啶距え啶ㄠ啶︵ 啶膏啶掂く啶傕お啷嵿ぐ啶 啷� 啷�00 啷�aha峁僰膩ragrah膩nmukta岣� svar奴pamupapadyate |
candravadvimala岣� p奴r峁嘺岣� sad膩nanda岣� svaya峁僷rabha岣� || 300 ||300. Freed from the clutches of egoism, as the moon from those of R膩hu, man attains to his real nature, and becomes pure, infinite, ever blissful and self-luminous.聽
Notes:
[Graha in Sanskrit means both 鈥榩lanet鈥� and 鈥榮eizure.鈥� The eclipses of the sun and moon are popularly ascribed by Hindu mythology to the periodical attacks by their enemy Rahu, a demon whom they prevented from drinking the nectar.]