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 37
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vasantavallokahita� caranta� |
tÄ«rṇÄḥ svayaá¹� bhÄ«mabhavÄrṇavaá¹� janÄn
ahetunÄn yÄnapi tÄrayantaá¸� || 37 ||37. There are good souls, calm and magnanimous, who do good to others as does the spring, and who, having themselves crossed this dreadful ocean of birth and death, help others also to cross the same, without any motive whatsoever.
Notes:
[Do good...... spring—i. e. unasked, out of their heart’s bounty, as the spring infuses new life into animate and inanimate nature, unobserved and unsought. The next Sloka follows up the idea. ]