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 528
गच्छंस्तिष्ठन्नुपविशञ्छयानो वान्यथापि वा ।
यथेच्छया वेसेद्विद्वानात्नारामः सदा मुनिः ॥ ५२८ ॥gacchaṃstiṣṭhannupaviśañchayāno vānyathāpi vā |
yathecchayā vesedvidvānātnārāmaḥ sadā muniḥ || 528 ||528. The illumined sage, whose only pleasure is in the Self, ever lives at ease, whether going or staying, sitting or lying, or in any other condition.
Notes:
[He is perfectly independent. ]