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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...

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svarÅ«pamÄnandaghanaá¹� vicÄrya |
vidhūya moha� svamanaḥprakalpita�
muktaá¸� ká¹›tÄrtho bhavatu prabuddhaá¸� || 472 ||

472. Thou, too, discriminate this Supreme Truth, the real nature of the Self, which is Bliss undiluted, and shaking off thy delusion created by thy own mind, be free and illumined, and attain the consummation of thy life.

 

Notes:

[Thou, too, &c.—The Guru is addressing the disciple.

Undiluted—unmixed, i. e. absolute.

Illumined—lit. awakened, i. e. from this unreal dream of duality. ]

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