उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

144 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIV
28. What is the use of his becoming a powerful one
or becoming Brahmâ or Indra if all inauspicious desires,
the cause of misery, are entirely uprooted ?
अहमित्यात्मधीर्या च ममेत्यात्मीयधीरपि ।
अर्थशून्ये यदा यस्य स आत्मज्ञो भवेत्तदा ॥ २९ ॥
29. He is a Knower of the Self to whom the ideas
‘me’ and ‘mine’ have become quite meaningless.¹
बुद्ध्यादौ सत्युपाधौ च तथासत्यविशेषता ।
यस्य चेदात्मनो ज्ञाता तस्य कार्यं कथं भवेत् ॥ ३० ॥
30. How can there be any action in one who finds
no difference in the Self both when ² the intellect etc.,
Its adjuncts exist and when ³ they do not ?
प्रसन्ने विमले व्योम्नि प्रज्ञानैकरसेऽद्वये ।
उत्पन्नात्मधियो ब्रूत किमन्यत्कार्यमिष्यते ॥ ३१ ॥
31. Say what action might be desired to be done by
one who has known himself to be without a second, who
is of the nature of homogeneous consciousness and who
is devoid of impurities, both natural and adventitious,
like the ether.
आत्मानं सर्वभूतस्थममित्रं चात्मनोऽपि यः ।
पश्यन्निच्छत्यसौ नूनं शीतीकर्तुं विभावसुम् ॥ ३२ ॥
32. He who sees the Self in all beings and at the
same time feels that he has enemies desires surely to
make fire cold.
¹ I.e., unreal. ² In waking and dream. ³ In deep sleep.