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 145
啶啶溹 啶膏啶膏啶むた啶啶た啶溹じ啷嵿く 啶む 啶むぎ啷� 啶︵啶灌ぞ啶む啶ぇ啷�啶班啷嵿啷佮ぐ啷�
啶班ぞ啶椸 啶げ啷嵿げ啶掂ぎ啶啶 啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ 啶む 啶掂お啷佮 啶膏啶曕え啷嵿ぇ啷嬥啶洁じ啶掂 啶多ぞ啶栢た啶曕ぞ啶� 啷�
啶呧啷嵿ぐ啶距ぃ啷�啶ㄠ啶︵啶班た啶じ啶傕す啶むた啶多啶� 啶掂た啶粪く啶距 啶啶粪啶ぞ啶｀た 啶︵啶冟啶� 啶げ啶�
啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠぞ啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ啶膏ぎ啷佮う啷嵿き啶掂 啶す啷佮さ啶苦ぇ啶� 啶啶曕啶むぞ啶む啶� 啶溹啶掂 啶栢啶� 啷� 啷оオ啷� 啷�b墨ja峁� sa峁僺峁泃ibh奴mijasya tu tamo deh膩tmadh墨ra峁卥uro
r膩ga岣� pallavamambu karma tu vapu岣� skandhoo'sava岣� 艣膩khik膩岣� |
agr膩峁嚹玭driyasa峁僪ati艣ca vi峁y膩岣� pu峁膩峁噄 du岣ha峁� phala峁�
n膩n膩karmasamudbhava峁� bahuvidha峁� bhokt膩tra j墨va岣� khaga岣� || 145 ||145. Of the tree of Samsara ignorance is the seed, the identification with the body is its sprout, attachment its tender leaves, work its water, the body its trunk, the vital forces its branches, the organs its twigs, the sense-objects its flowers, various miseries due to diverse works are its fruits, and the individual soul is the bird on it.
Notes:
[In this stanza Samsara or relative existence is likened to a tree, and the simile is brought out in detail. The appropriateness of the comparisons will be patent on reflection. It is this kind of Composition which shows Sankara not only to be a great philosopher but a true poet also. And such Slokas, as the reader will perceive, abound in this masterpiece of Vedantic literature.
Soul is the bird &c.鈥擟ompare the beautiful
Slokas of the Mundaka Upanishad (III. i. 1-2)鈥�铆濒V鈥� &C. With the ripening of
Knowledge the two birds coalesce into one, the Self alone remains, and life is known to be a dream. ]