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 鈥楢dvaita Vedanta鈥�, 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 31
啶啶曕啶粪啶距ぐ啶｀じ啶距ぎ啶椸啶班啶ぞ啶� 啶啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷囙さ 啶椸ぐ啷�啶じ啷� 啷�
啶膏啶掂じ啷嵿さ啶班啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶膏え啷嵿ぇ啶距え啶� 啶啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啶苦い啷嵿く啶た啶о啶い啷� 啷� 啷┼ェ 啷�mok峁k膩ra峁嘺s膩magry膩峁� bhaktireva gar墨yas墨 |
svasvar奴p膩nusandh膩na峁� bhaktirityabhidh墨yate || 31 ||31. Among things conducive to Liberation, devotion (Bhakti) holds the supreme place. The seeking after one鈥檚 real nature is designated as devotion.
Notes:
[The seeking etc.鈥擳his definition is from the Advaita standpoint. Dualists who substitute Isvara, the Supreme Lord, for the Atman or Supreme Self immanent in being, of course define Bhakti otherwise. For example, Narada defines it as 鈥渟膩 kasmaicit paramapremar奴p膩鈥濃�斺�淚t is of the nature of extreme love to some Being,鈥� and Sandilya, another authority
on the subject, puts it as 鈥渟膩 par膩nuraktir墨艣vare鈥濃�斺�淚t is extreme attachment to Isvara, the Lord.鈥� On reflection it will appear that there is not much difference between the definitions of the two schools.]