उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

118 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XI
नामरूपक्रियाभ्योऽन्यो नित्यमुक्तस्वरूपवान् ।
अहमात्मा परं ब्रह्म चिन्मात्रोऽहं सदाद्वयः ॥ ७ ॥
7. Ever free and different from names, forms and
actions I am the supreme Brahman, the Self, consisting
of pure Consciousness and always without a second.
अहं ब्रह्मास्मि कर्ता च भोक्ता चास्मीति ये विदुः ।
ते नष्टा ज्ञानकर्मभ्यां नास्तिकाः स्युर्न संशयः ॥ ८ ॥
8. Those who think themselves to be one with
Brahman and at the same time to be doers and experi-
encers should be regarded as fallen from both Know-
ledge and duties. They are, no doubt, unbelievers (in
the Vedas).
धर्माधर्मफलैर्योग इष्टोऽदृष्टो यथात्मनः ।
शास्त्राद्ब्रह्मत्वमप्यस्य मोक्षो ज्ञानात्तथेष्यताम् ॥ ९ ॥
9. It must be accepted on the strength of the
scriptures that the Self is Brahman, and that liberation
accrues from Right Knowledge only, like the connection
with the Self$^1$ of the results of sin and virtue, which,
though unseen is admitted (on the same authority).
या माहारजनाद्यास्ता वासनाः स्वप्नदर्शिभिः ।
अनुभूयन्त एवेह ततोऽन्यः केवलो दृशिः ॥ १० ॥
10. What are called (in the Sruti$^2$) clothes coloured
with turmeric etc. are nothing but mental impressions
$^1$ The individual Self. $^2$ Br. U., 2. 3. 6.