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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
138. One who is overpowered by ignorance mistakes a
thing for what it is not: It is the absence of discrimina-
tion that causes one to mistake a snake for a rope, and
great dangers overtake him when he seizes it through that
wrong notion. Hence, listen, my friend, it is the mistaking
of transitory things as real that constitutes bondage.
[1Discrimination - Between what is real (viz. the Self) and what is
not real (viz. the phenomenal world).]
अखण्डनित्याद्वय वोधशक्त्या
स्फुरन्तमात्मानमनन्तंवैभवम् ।
समावृणोत्यावृतिशक्तिरेषा
तमोमयी राहुरिवार्कबिम्बम् ॥ १३९ ॥
139. This veiling power (Avrti), which preponderates
in ignorance, covers the Self, whose glories are infinite and
which manifests Itself through the power of knowledge,
indivisible, eternal, and one without a second-as Rahul
does the orb of the sun.
[As Rāhu etc. - The reference is to the solar eclipse. In Indian
mythology the sun is supposed to be periodically overpowered by a
demon named Rāhu.]
तिरोभूते स्वात्मन्यमलतरतेजोवति पुमा-
ननात्मानं मोहादहमिति शरीरं कलयति ।
ततः कामक्रोधप्रभृतिभिरमं बन्धनगुणैः
परं विक्षेपाख्या रजस उरुशक्तिर्व्यथयति ॥ १४०॥
140. When his own Self, endowed with the purest
splendour, is hidden from view, a man through ignorance
VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
138. One who is overpowered by ignorance mistakes a
thing for what it is not: It is the absence of discrimina-
tion that causes one to mistake a snake for a rope, and
great dangers overtake him when he seizes it through that
wrong notion. Hence, listen, my friend, it is the mistaking
of transitory things as real that constitutes bondage.
[1Discrimination - Between what is real (viz. the Self) and what is
not real (viz. the phenomenal world).]
अखण्डनित्याद्वय वोधशक्त्या
स्फुरन्तमात्मानमनन्तंवैभवम् ।
समावृणोत्यावृतिशक्तिरेषा
तमोमयी राहुरिवार्कबिम्बम् ॥ १३९ ॥
139. This veiling power (Avrti), which preponderates
in ignorance, covers the Self, whose glories are infinite and
which manifests Itself through the power of knowledge,
indivisible, eternal, and one without a second-as Rahul
does the orb of the sun.
[As Rāhu etc. - The reference is to the solar eclipse. In Indian
mythology the sun is supposed to be periodically overpowered by a
demon named Rāhu.]
तिरोभूते स्वात्मन्यमलतरतेजोवति पुमा-
ननात्मानं मोहादहमिति शरीरं कलयति ।
ततः कामक्रोधप्रभृतिभिरमं बन्धनगुणैः
परं विक्षेपाख्या रजस उरुशक्तिर्व्यथयति ॥ १४०॥
140. When his own Self, endowed with the purest
splendour, is hidden from view, a man through ignorance