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 570
आवृतेः सदसत्त्वाभ्यां वक्तव्ये बन्धमोक्षणे ।
नावृतिर्ब्रह्मणः काचिदन्याभावादनावृतम्
यद्यस्त्यद्वैतहानिः स्याद्द्वैतं नो सहते श्रुतिः ॥ ५७0 ॥āvṛteḥ sadasattvābhyāṃ vaktavye bandhamokṣaṇe |
nāvṛtirbrahmaṇaḥ kācidanyābhāvādanāvṛtam
yadyastyadvaitahāniḥ syāddvaitaṃ no sahate śrutiḥ || 570 ||570. Bondage and Liberation may be talked of when there is the presence or absence of a covering veil. But there can be no covering veil for Brahman, which is always uncovered for want of a second thing besides Itself. If there be, the non-duality of Brahman will be contradicted, and the Śrutis can never brook duality.
Notes:
[Srutis......duality—e. g. “One only without a second,” (Chhándogya VI. ii. 1), “There is no duality in Brahman” (Katha IV. II), and so on.]