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...

दृष्टदुःखेष्वनुद्वेगो विद्यायाः प्रस्तुतं फलम् ।
यत्कृतं भ्रान्तिवेलायां नाना कर्म जुगुप्सितम्
पश्चान्नरो विवेकेन तत्कथं कर्तुमर्हति ॥ ४२१ ॥

dṛṣṭaduḥkheṣvanudvego vidyāyāḥ prastutaṃ phalam |
yatkṛtaṃ bhrāntivelāyāṃ nānā karma jugupsitam
paścānnaro vivekena tatkathaṃ kartumarhati || 421 ||

421. Being unruffled by earthly troubles is the result in question of knowledge. How can a man who did various loathsome deeds during the state of delusion, commit the same afterwards, possessed of discrimination?

 

Notes:

[Earthly—lit. visible, i. e. those experienced in this life, as opposed to the invisible ones, i. e. those which are to be experienced hereafter. ]

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