Vivekacūḍāmaṇi: The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination by Shankara Ācārya verses 501-550. It is the Upādhi (superimposed attribute) that comes, and it is that alone which goes; that, again, performs actions and experiences (their fruits), that alone decays and dies, whereas I ever remain firm like the Kula mountain. There is neither engaging in work nor cessation from it, for me always

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi: The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination by Shankara Ācārya verses 551-580. The man of realisation, bereft of the body-idea, moves amid sense-enjoyments like a man subject to transmigration, through desires engendered by Prārabdha work. He himself, however, lives unmoved in the body, like a witness, free from mental oscillations. He neither directs the sense-organs to their objects nor detaches them but