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 298
सन्त्यन्ये प्रतिबन्धाः पुंसः संसारहेतवो दृष्टाः ।
तेषामेवं मूलं प्रथमविकारो भवत्यहंकारः ॥ २९८ ॥santyanye pratibandhāḥ puṃsaḥ saṃsārahetavo dṛṣṭāḥ |
teṣāmevaṃ mūlaṃ prathamavikāro bhavatyahaṃkāraḥ || 298 ||298. Other obstacles are also observed to exist for men, which lead to transmigration. The root of them, for the above reasons, is the first modification of Nescience called egoism.
Notes:
[Other obstacles—such as desires etc.
For the above reasons—because but for Egoism, which is a product of nescience, there would not be any false identification, and therefore no serious trouble.]