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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...

महास्वप्ने मायाकृतजनिजरामृत्युगहन�
भ्रमन्तं क्लिश्यन्त� बहुलतरतापैरनुदिनम् �
अहंकारव्याघ्रव्यथितमिममत्यन्तकृपया
प्रबोध्य प्रस्वापात्परमवितवान्मामसि गुरो � ५१� �

mahāsvapne māyākṛtajanijarāmṛtyugahane
bhramanta� kliśyanta� bahulataratāpairanudinam |
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prabodhya prasvāpātparamavitavānmāmasi guro || 518 ||

518. O Master, thou hast out of sheer grace awakened me from sleep and completely saved me, who was wandering, in an interminable dream, in a forest of birth, decay and death created by illusion, being tormented day after day by countless afflictions, and sorely troubled by the tiger of egoism.

 

Notes:

[Sleep—of Nescience, which also creates the ‘dream,� two lines further on.

Forest—i. e. difficult to come through.

Day after day: It is a well-known fact that even a short dream may, to the dreamer’s mind, appear as extending over years.]

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