उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

196 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XVII
कल्प्योपाधिभिरेवैतद्भिन्नं ज्ञानमनेकधा ।
आधिभेदाद्यथा भेदो मणेरेकस्य जायते ॥ १६ ॥
16. Just as the same jewel assumes different
colours owing to its proximity to different (coloured)
things, so, this Pure Consciousness assumes different
forms ¹ on account of various adjuncts which are
superimposed on It (in dream).
जाग्रतश्च यथा भेदो ज्ञानस्यास्य विकल्पितः ।
बुद्धिस्थं व्याकरोत्यर्थं भ्रान्त्या तृष्णोद्भवक्रियः ॥ १७ ॥
17. As in dream, so in the waking state different
forms ¹ are superimposed on this Consciousness. It
manifests ² the objects of the intellect when it performs
actions produced by desires due to delusion.
स्वप्ने तद्वत्प्रबोधे यो बहिश्चान्तस्तथैव च ।
आलेख्‍याध्ययने यद्वत्तदन्योन्यधियोद्भवम् ॥ १८ ॥
18. The events in the waking state are similar to
those in dream. The ideas of the interior and exterior
in the former state is as unreal ³ as in the latter like
reading ⁴ and writing ⁴ depending on each other.
यदायं कल्पयेद्भेदं तत्कामः सन्यथाक्रतुः ।
यत्कामस्तत्क्रतुर्भूत्वा कृतं यत्तत्प्रपद्यते ॥ १९ ॥
¹ The knower, the known and the instruments of knowledge.
² See G. K., 2. 13. ³ G. K., 2. 9. 10.
⁴ Reading depends on a written page without which nothing can
be read ; and writing also depends on reading as we first read and
then write. So both of them are unreal as the sounds represented
by written letters are all-pervasive and have no forms. Hence
they can neither be really written nor read.