उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

152 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XV
फलान्तं चानुभूतं यद्युतं कत्रादिकारकैः ।
स्मर्यमाणं हि कर्मस्थं पूर्व कर्मेव तच्चितः ॥ ३ ॥
3. What is perceived to be connected with kârakas¹
and entailing results² is (found to be) in the (category of)
objects when it is remembered. The seat,³ therefore,
(in which it was perceived before) was an object⁴ of
Consciousness.
द्रष्टुश्चान्यद्भवेद्दृश्यं दृश्यत्वाद्वटवत्सदा ।
दृश्याद्द्रष्टाऽसजातीयो न धीवत्साक्षितान्यथा ॥ ४ ॥
4. The seen (e. g., the intellect) is always different
from the seer as it is an object of knowledge like a jar.
The seer is of a nature different from that of the seen.
Otherwise the seer would be devoid of the nature of
being the witness like the intellect.
स्वात्मबुद्धिमपेक्ष्यासौ विधीनां स्यात्प्रयोजकः ।
जात्यादिः शववत्तेन तद्भानानात्मतान्यथा ॥ ५ ॥
5. When they are considered to be one's own, caste
etc. become the cause of injunctions like a dead⁵ body.
They do not, therefore, belong to the Self.⁶ The Self
would otherwise⁷ become the non-Self.
¹ (In grammar) the relation subsisting between a noun and a verb
in a sentence (or between a noun and other words governing it).
² Pleasure and pain. ³ The intellect. ⁴ See verse 1, Chapter 14.
⁵ A dead body thought to be one's father or mother becomes the
cause of being cremated by sons and others.
⁶ Like the dead body which is no longer a father or a mother.
⁷ If caste etc., were regarded as belonging to the Self.