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...
Verse 107
यत्सुषुप्तौ निर्विषय आत्मानन्दोऽनुभूयते ।
श्रुतिः प्रत्यक्षमैतिह्यमनुमानं च जाग्रति ॥ १0७ ॥yatsuṣuptau nirviṣaya ātmānando'nubhūyate |
śrutiḥ pratyakṣamaitihyamanumānaṃ ca jāgrati || 107 ||107. That in profound sleep we experience the bliss of the Ātman independent of sense- objects, is clearly attested by the Śruti, direct perception, tradition and inference.
Notes:
[Sruti—Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Kausitaki and other Upanishads.
Jagrati—is a plural verb. ]