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 574
啶� 啶ㄠた啶班啶о 啶� 啶氞啶む啶い啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷嵿え 啶う啷嵿ぇ啷� 啶� 啶� 啶膏ぞ啶о啶� 啷�
啶� 啶啶啶曕啶粪啶班啶� 啶掂 啶啶曕啶� 啶囙い啷嵿く啷囙し啶� 啶ぐ啶ぞ啶班啶ムい啶� 啷� 啷キ啷� 啷�na nirodho na cotpattirna baddho na ca s膩dhaka岣� |
na mumuk峁rna vai mukta itye峁Ｄ� param膩rthat膩 || 574 ||574. There is neither death nor birth, neither a bound nor a struggling soul, neither a seeker after Liberation nor a liberated one 鈥� this is the ultimate truth.
Notes:
[This is a verbatim quotation from the Amrita-bindu Upanishad, Sloka 10. There is not much difference between 鈥楽谩dhaka鈥� and 鈥楳umukshu.鈥� So long as there is mind, there are all these distinctions, but the mind itself is a creation of Avidv谩. Hence the highest truth is that in which there is no relativity.]