Sankara's Vivek Chudamani::Brahman- Its Nature

Ø Brahman – Its  Nature(237-240)

Ø  Therefore, whatever Is manifested Is the Supreme Brahman Itself…Real, Non-dual, extremely pure, the essence of Knowledge Absolute, taintless, supremely  peaceful. without beginning or end, beyond all activity,always of the  nature of Bliss Absolute, transcending all diversities created by Maya, Eternal, the essence e of joy, Indivisible, Immeasurable, Formless, Unmanifest,Nameless,Immutable and Self-effulgent(237-238)

v  According  to Swami Chinmayananda , “Sankara  has  given  here  twenty adjectival  phrases  which  are  indicative  of   Brahman  or  Atman, the Self,  which  is  ever-present  in  each one  of  us.  These  may be  considered  as   twenty   exercises  in  deep meditation  for  developed  sadhaks  None  of  them, fact,  defines  Reality. But  each   one  of  them  suggests,  and  all  of  them  in  their  totality, directly  point   out the  essential  Self  behind  the  mind  and   its  agitations”

• Sages  realise the  Supreme Truth  in  whichthereare nodistinctions  such  as the knower, the knowledge  and the known,  which  is  Infinite,Transcendental and   which  is  of  the  essence  of Knowledge  Absolute(239)
• v That  which neither   can  be   thrown  away  nor taken  up, that  which  lies  beyond  the   limit  of  mind  and speech, which  is  immeasurable,,  which  is  without  beginning  and end,  which is  whole  and  one’s  own  Self,  which  is of  outshining   glory…that is  the  Self(240)

Ved  Prakash