उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

15-21] DREAM AND MEMORY 141
कर्तृकर्मफलाभावात्सबाह्याभ्यन्तरं ह्यजम् ।
ममाहं वेत्ति यो भावस्तस्मिन्कस्य कुतो भवेत् ॥ १८ ॥
18. Who (and for what reason) will attribute the
ideas of ‘me’ and ‘mine’ to the Self as It is unborn
and comprises the interior¹ and exterior on account of
the fact that the agent, actions and their results do not
exist ?
आत्मा ह्यात्मीय इत्येष भावोऽविद्याप्रकल्पितः ।
आत्मैकत्वे ह्यसौ नास्ति बीजाभावे कुतः फलम् ॥ १९ ॥
19. For the ideas ‘me’ and ‘mine’ are superimposed
(on the Self) due to Ignorance. They do not exist when
the Self is known to be one only. How can there be
an effect without a cause ?
द्रष्टृ श्रोतृ तथा मन्तृ विज्ञात्रेव तदक्षरम् ।
द्रष्ट्रान्यन्न तद्यस्मात्तस्माद्द्रष्टाऽहमक्षरम् ॥ २० ॥
20. It is (the individual Self known to be) the seer,
the hearer, the thinker and the knower that is (Brahman),
the imperishable One. As the individual Self is not
different from It, I, the seer, am the imperishable
Principle.
स्थावरं जङ्गमं चैव द्रष्टृत्वादिक्रियायुतम् ।
सर्वमक्षरमेवातः सर्वस्यात्माक्षरं त्वहम् ॥ २१ ॥
21. As all beings, moving and non-moving, are
endowed with actions such as, seeing etc. they are
¹ Footnote 2, verse 43, Chap. 17 and also see Mu. U., 2. 1. 2,