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 454
उपाधितादात्म्यविहीनकेवल
ब्रह्मात्मनैवात्मनि तिष्ठतो मुनेः ।
प्रारब्धसद्भावकथा न युक्ता
स्वप्नार्थसंबन्धकथेव जाग्रतः ॥ ४५४ ॥upādhitādātmyavihīnakevala
brahmātmanaivātmani tiṣṭhato muneḥ |
prārabdhasadbhāvakathā na yuktā
svapnārthasaṃbandhakatheva jāgrataḥ || 454 ||454. For the sage who lives in his own Self as Brahman, the One without a second, devoid of identification with the limiting adjuncts, the question of the existence of Prārabdha work is meaningless, like the question of a man who has awakened from sleep having any connection with the objects seen in the dream-state.