Who shines in the consciousness as the knower.

This whole universe shines after Him alone, Through the openings of ear, eye, mouth and thought,Īnd when that person realizes that ‘I know myself”, In the person in whom the wisdom goes out Gets away from this cycle of life and death. “Thou art that” after realizing its import, He who exists as the real light of truth,Īnd shines in the false world of appearance,Īnd He who teaches disciples the great saying, When the net of illusion is lifted and when we reach the stage of manifestation, we would find that what we think as different is but one and the same. The many places and time which are before us,Īre drawn by illusion in the board of life in a peculiar manner, Like the germ inside the seed is its part, When we get knowledge from the guru we are in the wakeful state without the veil of ignorance. As soon as we wake up, we realize that the dream is false and even while seeing our image in the mirror, we know that we are not seeing us in the mirror but our image. The above stanza tells us that the world which is outside us is same as our soul but we see them as different entities due to the veil of ignorance. That he is really the one and only one soul. That the one real fact appears as many different truths,Īnd he realizes,when he wakes up and sees the reality, It is similar to his seeing due to illusion, When one sees the image of the world within him, Similar to the image of a town as seen in the mirror, Who is in the state of extreme joy within himself, Who is surrounded by disciples who are old Sages,

Who explains the true nature of the supreme Brahman, There are large number of books and commentaries on this commentary itself. Even during his time, this stotra was difficult to comprehend and it became necessary for one of his disciples, Sureshwaracharya to write a commentary called Manasollasa to this stotra. Adhi Sankara has written very many great Stotras (prayers) but here is a unique prayer, which is not only a prayer but the summary of all the philosophy that he has taught.

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