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 132
啶呧い啷嵿ぐ啷堗さ 啶膏い啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶ㄠた 啶о啶椸啶灌ぞ啶ぞ啶�
啶呧さ啷嵿く啶距啷冟い啶距啶距ざ 啶夃ざ啶む啶啶班啶距ざ啶� 啷�
啶嗋啶距ざ 啶夃啷嵿啷� 啶班さ啶苦さ啶む啶啶班啶距ざ啶む
啶膏啶掂い啷囙啶膏ぞ 啶掂た啶多啶掂ぎ啶苦う啶� 啶啶班啶距ざ啶え啷� 啷� 啷оォ啷� 啷�atraiva sattv膩tmani dh墨guh膩y膩峁�
avy膩k峁泃膩k膩艣a u艣atprak膩艣a岣� |
膩k膩艣a uccai ravivatprak膩艣ate
svatejas膩 vi艣vamida峁� prak膩艣ayan || 132 ||132. In this very body, in the mind full of Sattva, in the secret chamber of the intellect, in the Akasha known as the Unmanifested, the 膧tman, of charming splendour, shines like the sun aloft, manifesting this universe through Its own effulgence.
Notes:
[This Sloka gives the hint where to look in for the Atman. First of all there is the gross body; within this there is the mind or 鈥渋nner organ,鈥� of which Buddhi or intelligence, characterised by determination, is the most developed form; within Buddhi again, pervading it, is the causal body known as the Unmanifested. We must seek the Atman inside this. The idea is that
Atman transcends all the three bodies鈥攊n fact the whole sphere of duality and materiality. The word 鈥楢kasa鈥� often occurs in the Sruti in the sense of Atman or Brahman. The Vedanta Sutras (I. i. 22) discuss this question and decide in favour of this meaning.]