Vivek Chudamani

SR No.: 007022
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

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VIVEKACŪDAMAŅI
Know that in thy heart as thy Self which very clearly manifests itself in the states of waking, dream and dreamless sleep, which shines always in the same form inside leading to the awareness of 'l' which perceives these modifications of various forms like ahamkāra and the intellect and which is self-effulgent as the eternal blissful consciousness. pratyagrūpatayā: being the absolutely innermost. sadā ekadhā: always in the same identical form.
ahamahamiti: as 'I', 'l' (as distinguished from the perceived things and modifications which are refferred to as 'this, this': idam, idam).
sphuran: svayamprakāśamānah: self-effulgent.
ahamdhimukhān kośan: the kośas beginning with ahamkāra etc., ending with the body.
nānākāravikārabhājinah: those modifications which are of different kinds relating to the organs and their location. They are subject to these vikāras; so nānārūpa; of various forms.
vikārabhājinah: the modifications (vikārāh) refer to birth, existence, change, growth, decay and death.
As the ahamkāra which is spoken of as antahkarana is transformed into the body etc., it also is included in the group of nānākāravikāras, various modifications.
imān: these objects which belong to the category of the seen.
iman paśyan: making them objects of perception. That which shines clearly in the three states of jāgrat, svapna and suşupti characteristic of all creatures.
sphuţataram: very clearly. yo'sau: asau: is used to indicate distant reference in the sloka. samujjrmbhate: shines independently of anything else.
nityānandacidātmanā sphurati: shines in the heart as the selfeffulgent, permanent and blissful.
pratyaktayā: Though it is distant for the unlearned, know this as what is very close to thee.
viddhi: know.