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...
Verse 497
स्थुलादिभावा मयि कल्पिता भ्रमाद्
आरोपितानुस्फुरणेन लोकैः ।
काले यथा कल्पकवत्सराय
णर्त्वादयो निष्कलनिर्विकल्पे ॥ ४९७ ॥sthulādibhāvā mayi kalpitā bhramād
āropitānusphuraṇena lokaiḥ |
kāle yathā kalpakavatsarāya
ṇartvādayo niṣkalanirvikalpe || 497 ||497. Such ideas as gross (or subtle) are erroneously imagined in me by people through the manifestation of things superimposed – just as in the indivisible and absolute time, cycles, years, half-years, seasons, etc., are imagined.
Notes:
[Cycles—The period of duration of the Universe.]