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Viveka Chudamani

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Viveka Chudamani is a work of the Great Shankara. Here are a few extracts.

 

When the supreme reality is not understood, the study of the scriptures is useless, and study of the scriptures is useless when the supreme reality has been understood.

 

How can one reach liberation by just pronouncing the word God without achieving the elimination of the visible universe and realising the truth about one's own nature? It will just be a waste of speech.

 

Action is for the purification of the mind, not for the understanding of reality. The recognition of reality is through discrimination, and not by even tens of millions of actions.

 

It is the wise and learned man, skilled in sorting out the pros and cons of an argument who is really endowed with the qualities necessary for self-realisation.

 

Sons and suchlike are able free their father from debts, but no-one can free some-one else from bondage.

 

The pain of something like a weight on the head can be removed by others, but the pain of things like hunger can be put an end to by no-one but oneself.

 

Among the contributory factors of liberation, devotion stands supreme, and it is the search for one's own true nature that is meant by devotion.

 

For the whole set, goto www.realization.org

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