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 198-199
啶呧え啶距う啶苦い啷嵿さ啶さ啶苦う啷嵿く啶距く啶距 啶曕ぞ啶班啶じ啷嵿く啶距お啶� 啶むぅ啷囙し啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶夃い啷嵿お啶ㄠ啶ㄠぞ啶ぞ啶� 啶む 啶掂た啶︵啶ぞ啶ぞ啶ぞ啶掂た啶︵啶啶え啶距う啷嵿く啶た 啷� 啷оク啷� 啷�啶啶班が啷嬥ぇ啷� 啶膏啶掂お啷嵿え啶掂い啷嵿じ啶班啶掂 啶膏す啶啶侧 啶掂た啶ㄠざ啷嵿く啶むた 啷�
啶呧え啶距う啷嵿く啶啶︵ 啶ㄠ 啶ㄠた啶む啶 啶啶班ぞ啶椸き啶距さ 啶囙さ 啶膏啶啶熰ぎ啷� 啷� 啷оク啷� 啷�an膩ditvamavidy膩y膩岣� k膩ryasy膩pi tathe峁ate |
utpann膩y膩峁� tu vidy膩y膩m膩vidyakaman膩dyapi || 198 ||prabodhe svapnavatsarva峁� saham奴la峁� vina艣yati |
an膩dyap墨da峁� no nitya峁� pr膩gabh膩va iva sphu峁璦m || 199 ||198-199. Avidya or Nescience and its effects are likewise considered as beginningless. But with the rise of Vidy膩 or realisation, the entire effects of Avidya, even though beginningless, are destroyed together with their root 鈥� like dreams on waking up from sleep. It is clear that the phenomenal universe, even though without beginning, is not eternal 鈥� like previous non-existence.聽
Notes:
[Their root鈥攊. e. Avidya.
Previous non-existence鈥�笔谤补驳补产丑谩惫补鈥攁 term of Hindu logic. When we say a thing comes into being at a definite point of time, we imply also that there was non-existence of that particular thing prior to the moment of its birth. And this 鈥榥onexistence鈥� is obviously beginningless. But it ceases as soon as the thing comes into being. Similarly, Avidya which means absence of Vidya or knowledge, even though beginningless, disappears when realisation comes.]