उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

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persons or things. For this love, secondary ¹ to that for
the Self, is evanescent and entails pain. He then
should take refuge in a Teacher who is tranquil, free,
bereft of actions and established in Brahman as the
Sruti ² and Smriti ³ say “ One having a Teacher knows ”
and “ Know that.”
स गुरुस्तारयेद्युक्तं शिष्यं शिष्यगुणान्वितम् ।
ब्रह्मविद्याप्लवेनाशु स्वान्तध्वान्तमहोदधिम् ॥ ५३ ॥
53. That teacher should immediately take the
disciple in the boat of the Knowledge of Brahman
across the great ocean of the darkness ⁴ which is within
him—the disciple who is of a one-pointed mind and
endowed with the qualities ⁵ of a (true) disciple.
दृष्टिः स्पृष्टिः श्रुतिर्ध्रातिर्मतिर्विज्ञातिरेव च ।
शक्तयोऽन्याश्च भिद्यन्ते चिद्रूपत्वेऽप्युपाधिभिः ॥ ५४ ॥
54. The powers of seeing, touching, hearing, smell-
ing, thinking, knowing and so on, though of the nature
of Pure Consciousness,⁶ differ on account of adjuncts.⁷
अपायोद्भूतिहीनाभिर्नित्यं दीप्यन्खरविर्यथा ।
सर्वज्ञः सर्वदृक् शुद्धः सर्वं जानाति सर्वदा ॥ ५५ ॥
55. Just as the sun illumines the world with its rays
which are free from growth and decay, so, the Self
¹ See verses 4 and 5 of this chapter. ² Chh. U., 6. 14. 2.
³ Bh. Gîtâ, 4. 34.
⁴ Ignorance. ⁵ See verse 72, chapter 16.
⁶ See verses 14, 15 and 16 of this chapter.
⁷ The eye etc., the sense organs.