उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

130 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIII
7, 8. Similarly, other mental modifications in the
forms of objects of knowledge produced through the in-
strumentality of other organs and also those in the forms
of memory, attachment, etc. existing only within the
mind, and those¹ again in dream are witnessed by one
different from all of them (i.e., by the Self). The Know-
ledge, therefore, of the Knower² is eternal, pure, infinite
and without a second.
अनित्या साऽविशुद्धेति गृह्यतेऽत्राविवेकतः ।
सुखी दुःखी तथा चाहं दृश्ययोपाधिभूतया ॥ ९ ॥
9. It is through the indiscrimination between the
Self and the modifications of the mind, Knowable
adjuncts to the Self that the Knowledge of the Knower³
is wrongly conceived by the people to be impure and
transitory and the Self happy or miserable.
मूढया मूढ इत्येवं शुद्धया शुद्ध इत्यपि ।
मन्यते सर्वलोकोऽयं येन संसारमृच्छति ॥ १० ॥
10. All men misconceive themselves to be ignorant
or pure according as they identify themselves with the
mental modification, ‘ I am ignorant ’ or ‘ I am pure ’. It
is for this reason that they continue to be in transmigra-
tory existence.
अचक्षुष्कादिशास्त्रोक्तं सबाह्याभ्यन्तरं त्वजम् ।
नित्यमुक्तमिहात्मानं मुमुक्षुश्चेत्सदा स्मरेत् ॥ ११ ॥
¹ These modifications do not assume the forms of external objects
but of their impression only. ² I.e., The Self which is Knowledge
itself, just as by the heat of fire we mean the heat which is
fire itself. ³ See footnote 2 on the two previous verses.