Laghuvakyavrittih (Laghuvākyavṛttiḥ)
लघुवाक्यवृत्तिः
Short Advaita Vedānta treatise (prakaraṇa); 18 verses.
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Date
- 700–750 CE
- Author
- Śaṅkara
- Extent
- 21 passages, 158 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- ambuda · The Works of Sri Sankaracharya, Volume 16 (Miscellaneous Prakaranas, Vol. 2). Srirangam: Sri Vani Vilas… · CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain dedication) — "Distributed by Ambuda under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0…
Contents
Text
subtitle
|| śrīḥ ||
title
|| laghuvākyavṛttiḥ ||
1
sthūlo māṃsamayo deho
sūkṣmaḥ syādvāsanāmayaḥ |
jñānakarmendriyaiḥ sārdhaṃ
dhīprāṇau taccharīragau || 1 ||
2
ajñānaṃ kāraṇaṃ sākṣī
bodhasteṣāṃ vibhāsakaḥ |
bodhābhāso buddhigataḥ
kartā syātpuṇyapāpayoḥ || 2 ||
3
sa eva saṃsaretkarma-
vaśāllokadvaye sadā |
bodhābhāsācchuddhabodhaṃ
vivicyādatiyatnataḥ || 3 ||
4
jāgarasvapnayoreva
bodhābhāsaviḍambanā |
suptau tu tallaye bodhaḥ
śuddho jāḍyaṃ prakāśayet || 4 ||
5
jāgare'pi dhiyastūṣṇīṃ-
bhāvaḥ śuddhena bhāsyate |
dhīvyāpārāśca cidbhāsyā-
ścidābhāsena saṃyutāḥ || 5 ||
6
vahnitaptajalaṃ tāpa-
yuktaṃ dehasya tāpakam |
cidbhāsyā dhīstadābhāsa-
yuktānyaṃ bhāsayettathā || 6 ||
7
rūpādau guṇadoṣādi-
vikalprā buddhigāḥ kriyāḥ |
tāḥ kriyā viṣayaiḥ sārdhaṃ
bhāsayantī citirmatā || 7 ||
8
rūpācca guṇadoṣābhyāṃ
viviktā kevalā citiḥ |
saivānuvartate rūpa-
rasādīnāṃ vikalpane || 8 ||
9
kṣaṇe kṣaṇe'nyathābhūtā
dhīvikalpāścitirna tu |
muktāsu sūtravadbuddhi-
vikalpeṣu citistathā || 9 ||
10
muktābhirāvṛtaṃ sūtraṃ
muktayormadhya īkṣyate |
tathā vṛttivikalpaiści-
tspaṣṭā madhye vikalpayoḥ || 10 ||
11
naṣṭe pūrvavikalpe tu
yāvadanyasya nodayaḥ |
nirvikalpakacaitanyaṃ
spaṣṭaṃ tāvadvibhāsate || 11 ||
12
ekadvitrikṣaṇeṣvevaṃ
vikalpasya nirodhanam |
krameṇābhyasyatāṃ yatnā-
dbrahmānubhavakāṅkṣibhiḥ || 12 ||
13
savikalpakajīvo'yaṃ
brahma tannirvikalpakam |
ahaṃ brahmeti vākyena
so'yamartho'bhidhīyate || 13 ||
14
savikalpakacidyo'haṃ
brahmaikaṃ nirvikalpakam |
svataḥsiddhā vikalpāste
niroddhavyāḥ prayatnataḥ || 14 ||
15
śakyaḥ sarvanirodhena
samādhiryogināṃ priyaḥ |
tadaśaktau kṣaṇaṃ ruddhvā
śraddhālurbrahmatātmanaḥ || 15 ||
16
śraddhālurbrahmatāṃ svasya
cintayedbuddhivṛttibhiḥ |
vākyavṛttyā yathāśakti
jñātvāddhābhyamyatāṃ sadā || 16 ||
17
taccintanaṃ tatkathana-
manyonyaṃ tatprabodhanam |
etadekaparatvaṃ ca
brahmābhyāsaṃ vidurbudhāḥ || 17 ||
18
dehātmadhīvadbrahmātma-
dhadārḍhye kṛtakṛtyatā |
yadā tadāyaṃ mriyatāṃ
mukto'sau nātra saṃśayaḥ || 18 ||
trailer
iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryasya śrīgovindabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīmacchakarabhagavataḥ kṛtau laghuvākyavṛttiḥ saṃpūrṇā ||
Translations (1)
- English (machine translation) — English, not yet digitised
See also: more in Advaita Vedanta texts
- Vivekacudamani (Vivekacūḍāmaṇi) — Sanskrit; 900–1500 CE
- Atma bodha (Ātmabodha) — Sanskrit; 700–1500 CE
- Essence of Vedānta (Vedāntasāra) — Sanskrit; 1450–1550 CE
- Mokshopaya (Mokṣopāya) — Sanskrit; 950–1000 CE
- Upadeshasahasri (Upadeśasāhasrī) — Sanskrit; 700–750 CE
- Vedantaparibhasha (Vedāntaparibhāṣā) — Sanskrit; 1550–1650 CE
Discussed in 2 studies in Pramāṇa (listed on the page).