उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

3-6] KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE INTELLECT 103
merged during deep sleep). The Knower is always ¹
the knower. Duality has, therefore, no existence.
अविवेकात्पराभावं यथा बुद्धिरवैत्तथा ।
विवेकात्तु परादन्यः स्वयं चापि न विद्यते ॥ ६ ॥
6. The intellect ² knew the non-existence of the
supreme Brahman before the discrimination (between
the Self and the non-Self). But after the discrimination
there is no individual Self different from Brahman nor
is there the intellect itself.
¹ For the Self never ceases to exist like the intellect, its modifi-
cations or the objects of knowledge. Therefore they must be
unreal. But the Self which always exists must be real and pure.
² Here the intellect is spoken of as having delusion. For it is
on account of the mutual superimposition of the Self and the
intellect that all delusion arises. Otherwise the intellect itself
could not be spoken of as deluded or otherwise as it is non-
conscious.