THE WORKS OF SANKARA
VIVEKA CHUDAMANI
SLOKAS 491 TO 500
d#¾¤:½aEt¤vI³[:
kt¤IBa©I³[¢vI¢B°
evahm¯
,
¢nÏy¢nrÓtr¢n¢Ý@y¢n:s£masÄñp¥NIbaEdaÏma
.491.
d#¾¤:½aEt¤vI³[:
|
from the seer,listener |
kt¤IBa©I³[¢vI¢B°
|
doer, and experiencer |
¢nÏy¢nrÓtr¢n¢Ý@y¢n:s£masÄñp¥NIbaEdaÏma
|
I am the
Essence of |
491. I am no longer the seer, hearer,
speaker, doer, enjoyer. I am without actions, without limits, the one eternal
consciousness.
nah¢md|
nahmdaE{Ôy¤ByaErvBask|
pr|
S¤ÑGm¯
,
ba/a×yÓtrS¥Óy|
p¥NI|
b#'a¢¹t£ymEvahm¯
.492.
nah¢md|
|
I am neither
this |
nahmdaE{Ôy¤ByaErvBask|
|
nor that, but the
Supreme, |
ba/a×yÓtrS¥Óy|
|
devoid of interior
or exterior |
b#'a¢¹t£ymEvahm¯
|
I am indeed
Brahman, the One |
492. I am not this or that but
the manifester of both, pure, ever free from external
or internal. I am Brahman, One without
a second.
¢nâpmmna¢dtt¯Ïv|
Ïvmh¢mdmd
i¢t
kÚpnaÑ¥rm¯
,
¢nÏyanÓdWkrs|
sÏy|
b#'a¢¹t£ymEvahm¯
.493.
¢nâpmmna¢dtt¯Ïv|
|
matchless, the Reality
that has |
Ïvmh¢mdmd
|
as thou or
I, or this or that |
i¢t
kÚpnaÑ¥rm¯
|
beyond such imaginations |
¢nÏyanÓdWkrs|
|
the Essence of
Eternal Bliss |
b#'a¢¹t£ymEvahm¯
|
I am indeed
brahman, the One |
493. I am Brahman,
One without a second, incomparable, beginningless, free from ideas
of I, thou, this or that, free from doubt, ever blissful, one uniform truth.
narayNaE{h|
nrkaÓtkaE{h|
p¤raÓtkaE{h|
p¤âxaE{hm£S:
,
|FÁÓÏ ÅÁÚÁI{GiFF0000G:|FÁÓÏ Þ£ÜW{®2:AKÎfbaEDaE{hmSExsa¢X
¢nr£áraE{h|
¢nrh|
c
¢nmIm:
.494.
narayNaE{h|
|
I am Narayana |
nrkaÓtkaE{h|
|
the slayer of
Naraka |
p¤raÓtkaE{h|
|
I am the
destroyer of Tripura |
p¤âxaE{hm£S:
|
the Supreme Being,
the Ruler |
AKÎfbaEDaE{hmSExsa¢X
|
I am knowledge
Absolute, the |
¢nr£áraE{h|
|
I have no
other Ruler but my |
¢nrh|
c
|
I am devoid
of the ideas of |
494.I am That, the
Lord, the Refuge of all, the Destroyer of sins,
the Purusha, the Supreme, the indivisible consciousness,
the only controller of all, without ego,
or ideas of "me" and "mine".
sv©Ix¤
B¥tEÝvhmEv
s|¢ÞTtaE
åOanaÏmna{Ótrqb¢hra½y:
sn¯
,
BaE³a
c
BaEÂy|
ÞvymEv
svI|
yïÏp¦TÂè¾¢mdÓtya
p¤ra
.495.
B¥tEÝvhmEv
|
I alone, in
beings |
åOanaÏmna{Ótrqb¢hra½y:
|
as knowledge,being their
in |
BaEÂy|
|
and all that
is experienced |
yïÏp¦TÂè¾¢mdÓtya
|
whatever I looked
upon as "this" |
495. I exist as consciousness
in all creatures, the Self, the refuge of the
external and the internal, the enjoyer and the enjoyable. I
am all that I saw as separate before.
mÙyKÎfs¤KaØBaEDaW
bh^Da
¢váv£cy:
,
uÏpïÓtE
¢vl£yÓtE
mayamaât¢vB#mat¯
.496.
mÙyKÎfs¤KaØBaEDaW
|
in me,the ocean
of Infinite |
¢váv£cy:
|
the waves of
the universe |
mayamaât¢vB#mat¯
|
by the playing
of the wind |
496.The wind of Maya
it is that creates these waves of the world in
me through ignorance, but they now dissolve
in the one indivisible ocean of consciousness.
ÞT¥la¢dBava
m¢y
k¢Úpta
B#madaraE¢ptan¤ÞP[rNEn
laEkW:
,
kalE
yTa
kÚpkvtSrayNÏvadIy
¢nÝkl¢n¢vIkÚpE
.497.
ÞT¥la¢dBava
|
such ideas as
gross (or subtle) |
daraE¢ptan¤ÞP[rNEn
|
through the manifestation
of |
kÚpkvtSray
|
in the indivisible
and absolute time, abs |
¢nÝkl¢n¢vIkÚpE
|
are imagined. |
497. People in ignorance
impute to me the three different states,
gross or subtle, just as they impute to
Eternity cycles, years, months, weeks, days,
etc. But Eternity is indivisible and unchanged.
AaraE¢pt|
na½yÑ¥xk|
BvEt¯
kda¢p
m¥FWr¢tdaExÑ¥¢xtW:
,
narqd#£kraEÏy¥xr
B¥¢mBag|
mr£¢ckava¢rmhap#vah:
.498.
AaraE¢pt|
|
is superimposed |
na½yÑ¥xk|
|
taint the substratum |
m¥FWr¢tdaExÑ¥¢xtW:
|
by the grossly
ignorant fools |
narqd#£kraEÏy¥xr
|
never wets the
desert |
mr£¢ckava¢rmhap#vah:
|
the great rush
of waters observed |
498. Imputation does not change
a substance. The mirage does not make the desert wet. So such talk
is in vain.
AakaSvÚlEp¢vÑ¥rgaE{hma¢dÏyvëaÞy¢vlXNaE{hm¯
,
AhayIv¢°Ïy¢v¢nàlaE{hmmBaE¢DvÏpar¢vv¢jItaE{hm¯
.499..
AakaSvÚlEp¢vÑ¥rgaE{h
|
I am beyond
contamina |
ma¢dÏyvëaÞy¢vlXNaE{hm¯
|
,
I am distinct
from things |
AhayIv¢°Ïy¢v¢nàlaE{h
|
I am always
motionless |
mmBaE¢DvÏpar¢vv¢jItaE{hm¯
|
I am limitless
like the |
499. I am like
the sky without limit, like the sun, separate
from whatever it manifests, immovable,
a shoreless ocean.
|FÁÓÏ ÅÁÚÁI{GiFF0000G:|FÁÓÏ Þ£ÜW{®2:
n
mE
dEhEn
sØbÓDaE
mEGEnEv
¢vhays:
,
At:
k[taE
mE
tÑGmI
jag#t¯Þvp"s¤x¤çOy:
.500.
¢vhays:
|
as the sky
(has no connection) |
jag#t¯Þvp"s¤x¤çOy:
|
wakefulness,dream,and profound |
500. I have no
connection with the body even as the sky
has none with the clouds, so none of the
attributes of the body like its three states are in me.