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 413
छायेव पुंसः परिदृश्यमान्
माभासरूपेण फलानुभूत्या ।
शरीरमाराच्छववन्निरस्तं
पुनर्न संधत्त इदं महात्मा ॥ ४१३ ॥chāyeva puṃsaḥ paridṛśyamān
mābhāsarūpeṇa phalānubhūtyā |
śarīramārācchavavannirastaṃ
punarna saṃdhatta idaṃ mahātmā || 413 ||413. After the body has once been cast off to a distance like a corpse, the sage never more attaches himself to it, though it is visible as an appearance, like the shadow of a man, owing to the experience of the effects of past deeds.
Notes:
[Visible as an appearance etc.—It would not be perceived at all but for the effects of Prárabdha work which are experienced through the body. As it is, it is just an appearance.
The man of realisation never identifies himself with the body, not even during his return to the normal plane after Samadhi. ]