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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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. ]