उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

42-48] RIGHT KNOWLEDGE 205
45. Caste ¹ etc. given up with the giving up of the
previous body do belong to the body only (and not to
the Self). For the very same reason (of being perish-
able) the body is also not the Self.
ममाहं चेत्यतोऽविद्या शरीरादिष्वनात्मसु ।
आत्मज्ञानेन हेया स्यादसुराणामिति श्रुतेः ॥ ४६ ॥
46. The conceptions of ‘ me ’ and ‘ mine ’ with regard
to the non-Self, the body etc., are due to Ignorance and
should be renounced by means of Self-knowledge as
there is the Sruti,² ‘ of the Asuras.’ ³
दशाहाशौचकार्याणां पारिव्राज्ये निवर्तनम् ।
यथा, ज्ञानस्य संप्राप्तौ तद्वज्जात्यादिकर्मणाम् ॥ ४७ ॥
47. Just as the duty of observing defilement for ten
days (following child birth or the death of a kinsman)
is refrained from when one becomes a wandering
religious mendicant ; so, the duties belonging to parti-
cular castes etc. come to an end when right Knowledge
is achieved.
यत्कामस्तत्क्रतुर्भूत्वा कृतं त्वज्ञः प्रपद्यते ।
यदा स्वात्मदृशः कामाः प्रमुच्यन्तेऽमृतस्तदा ॥ ४८ ॥
48. A man of Ignorance reaps ⁴ the results of those
actions done according to particular desires followed by
¹ See verse 5, chapter 15.
² Chh. U., 8. 8. 4, 5. ³ Opponents of gods.
⁴ See verse 19 of this chapter.