विवेक
Viveka
Discrimination between real and unreal
📜Understanding Viveka
Viveka is the faculty of discernment that allows us to distinguish between what is eternal and what is temporary, between the real and the unreal, between the Self and the non-Self. It is the sharp clarity of mind that sees through appearances to understand the true nature of things. Without viveka, we mistake the fleeting pleasures of the world for lasting happiness and identify ourselves with our body and mind rather than with our eternal essence.
🕉️Related Shlokas(15)
Gita 2.49
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2
Action bound to fruit is spiritual poverty—take refuge in the wisdom that liberates action from the bondage of outcomes, and discover the immense freedom of doing without grasping.
Gita 2.51
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2
The wise, armed with discerning wisdom, release the fruits that actions produce and break free from birth's revolving door—they arrive at a state untouched by sorrow, the final home of the liberated soul.
Gita 2.57
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2
Neither exulting in good fortune nor despising misfortune, remaining without clinging everywhere—in such a one, wisdom is truly established.
📖Related Stories(15)
Arjuna Vow to Kill Yudhishthira
→Mahabharata, Karna Parva
Krishna resolved Arjunas impossible dilemma of having to kill his brother for insulting his bow, teaching that rigid vows require contextual wisdom.
Vidura Niti
→Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva
Vidura counseled Dhritarashtra through 500 shlokas of wisdom about leadership, ethics, and self-control before the great war.
💬Related Dialogues(15)
Krishna Explains Why the Gita Was Spoken on a Battlefield
→Krishna & Arjuna
Deep teaching requires deep openness, which often comes through crisis. Wisdom is not in remembering words but in living questions. Revelation is momentary; integration is lifelong. The goal is not to return to the peak but to bring something from it to the valley.
Tara's Wisdom - When the Queen Must Choose
→Tara & Vali
Pride overrules wisdom at fatal cost. The counsel we ignore is often the counsel we needed most. Strategic patience is not cowardice—it is intelligence.