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 562
अविनाशी वा अरेऽयमात्मेति श्रुतिरात्मनः ।
प्रब्रवीत्यविनाशित्वं विनश्यत्सु विकारिषु ॥ ५६२ ॥avināśī vā are'yamātmeti śrutirātmanaḥ |
prabravītyavināśitvaṃ vinaśyatsu vikāriṣu || 562 ||562. The Śruti passage, "Verily is this Ātman immortal, my dear", mentions the immortality of the Ātman in the midst of things perishable and subject to modification.
Notes:
[Sruti—Brihadáranyaka IV. v. 14; “Verily is
this Atman immortal, my dear, indestructible by Its very nature”]