उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

दृशिस्वरूपपरमार्थदर्शनप्रकरणम् ॥ १० ॥
CHAPTER X
RIGHT CONCEPTION OF THE NATURE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
दृशिस्वरूपं गगनोपमं परं सकृद्विभातं त्वजमेकमक्षरम् ।
अलेपकं सर्वगतं यदद्वयं तदेव चाहं सततं विमुक्तॐ ॥ १ ॥

1. I am the supreme Brahman which is pure con-
   sciousness, always clearly manifest, unborn, one only,
   imperishable, unattached and all-pervading like the
   ether and non-dual. I am, therefore, ever-free. Aum.¹
   दृशिस्तु शुद्धोऽहमविक्रियात्मको
   न मेऽस्ति कश्चिद्विषयः स्वभावतः ।
   पुरस्तिरश्चोर्ध्वमधश्च सर्वतः
   संपूर्णभूमा त्वज आत्मनि स्थितः ॥ २ ॥
2. Pure and changeless consciousness I am by
   nature devoid of objects (to illumine). Unborn and
   established in the Self I am all-pervading Brahman in
   the front, oblique, upward, downward and all other
   directions.
   ¹ The Sanskrit word ‘Aum’ used in the text indicates that one
   realizes Brahman by meditating on it. See Kathopanishat 1. 2. 16, 17.