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 325
啶侧啷嵿し啷嵿く啶氞啶啶む 啶氞啶︵啶う啶� 啶氞た啶む啶むぎ啷�啶粪う啷�
啶す啶苦ぐ啷嵿ぎ啷佮啶� 啶膏え啷嵿え啶苦お啶む啶む啶むい啶膏啶むい啶� 啷�
啶啶班ぎ啶距う啶む 啶啶班啷嵿く啷佮い啶曕啶侧た啶曕え啷嵿う啷佮啶�
啶膏啶ぞ啶ㄠお啶權啶曕啶む 啶い啶苦い啷� 啶ぅ啶� 啶むぅ啶� 啷� 啷┼エ啷� 啷�lak峁acyuta峁� cedyadi cittam墨峁d
bahirmukha峁� sannipatettatastata岣� |
pram膩data岣� pracyutakelikanduka岣�
sop膩napa峁卥tau patito yath膩 tath膩 || 325 ||325. If the mind ever so slightly strays from the Ideal and becomes outgoing, then it goes down and down, just as a play-ball inadvertently dropped on the staircase bounds down from one step to another.
Notes:
[Ideal鈥擝rahman. Cf. Mundaka II. ii. 3-4.
What a terrible and graphic warning to happy-go-lucky aspirants! ]