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VIVEKACŪDAMANI
adambhaḥ: Proclaiming one's qualities for acquiring fame or profit is dambha. Absence of it is a-dambha.
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ahimsa: avoiding harm to others by mind, act and speech.
kṣāntiḥ: absence of change of attitude towards others though disgraced by them.
ārjavam: identity of thought, speech and act.
ācāryopāsanam: Following the teacher by obeisance, by inquiry and service.
bahirantaśśucitvam: Washing away external (bodily) impurities by mud and water, and the internal (mental) impurities like attachment by the inclinations of friendship etc., and by the practice of seeing the sense-objects as evils.
sthairyam: endeavouring again and again in the face of obstacles to the practice of means to liberation without giving up the attempt.
atmavinigrahaḥ: controlling the nature of the body and the senses which are hindrances to the attainment of liberation and converting them into a condition favourable therefor.
vairāgyam: absence of desire for the objects of senses like sound and touch and for pleasures here and hereafter.
anahaṁkāraḥ: absence of pride of the form: I alone am superior to all.
janmamṛtyujarā: janma: life in the womb and coming off the uterus; mṛtyuḥ: severance of all the ties of nerves, muscles and other internal organs; jarā: decline of powers of mind, body and spirit and consequent disrespect and insult by everybody.
vyadhayaḥ: fever etc.
duḥkhāni: mental sufferings caused by the association of the undesired and dissociation from the desired like the adhyatmika etc.
doṣāḥ: wind, bile and phlegm (the three humours of the body), excreta, urine and bad smell; seeing these again and again and thinking of them repeatedly.
(teṣām) anudarśanam: punaḥ punaḥ alocanam: reflecting on them again and again.
asaktiḥ: giving up of attachment to sons etc., not identifying
| SR No. | 007022 |
| Book Title | Vivek Chudamani |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chandrashekhar Bharti Swami, P Sankaranarayan |
| Publisher | Bharatiya Vidyabhavan |
| Publication Year | 1988 |
| Total Pages | 552 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 14 MB |