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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...

विमानमालम्ब्� शरीरमेतद्
भुनक्त्यशेषान्विषयानुपस्थितान् �
परेच्छया बालवदात्मवेत्त�
योऽव्यक्तलिङ्गोऽननुषक्तबाह्य� � ५३� �

vimānamālambya śarīrametad
bhunaktyaśeṣānviṣayānupasthitān |
parecchayā bālavadātmavettā
yo'vyaktaliṅgo'nanuṣaktabāhya� || 539 ||

539. The knower of the Ātman, who wears no outward mark and is unattached to external things, rests on this body without identification, and experiences all sorts of sense-objects as they come, through others� wish, like a child.

 

Notes:

[No outward mark: Hence it is so difficult to know them.

Sense-objects—food etc.

As they come—in the working out of Prárabdha work.

Through others� wish—as asked by his devotees or friends. ]

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