Vivek Chudamani

Author(s): Shankaracharya, Madhavanand Swami
Publisher: Advaita Ashram

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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
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36. Save me from death, afflicted as I am by the unquenchable fire of this world-forest, and shaken violently by the winds of an untoward lot, terrified and (so) seeking refuge in thee, for I do not know of any other man with whom to seek shelter.
riFire &c.-The world (Samsara) is commonly compared to a wilderness on fire. The physical and mental torments are referred to.
2 Untoward lot—the aggregate of bad deeds done in one's past incarnations, which bring on the evils of the present life.]
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वसन्तवल्लोकहितं चरन्तः। तीर्णाः स्वयं भीमभवार्णवं जना
नहेतुनान्यानपि तारयन्तः ॥ ३७॥
37. There are good souls, calm and magnanimous, who do good to others as does the spring, and who having themselves crossed this dreadful ocean of birth and death, help others also to cross the same, without any motive whatsoever.
['Do good &c.—i.e., unasked, out of their heart's bounty, as the spring infuses new life into animate and inanimate nature, unobserved and unsought. The next Sloka follows up the idea.]
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