उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

78-83] RIGHT KNOWLEDGE 215
81. One should have the conception that one is
Brahman which is without qualities, without actions,
Eternal, free from duality, free from unhappiness, pure,
awakened and free.
बन्धं मोक्षं च सर्वं यत इदमुभयं हेयमेकं द्वयं च ।
ज्ञेयं ज्ञेयाभ्यतीतं परममधिगतं तत्त्वमेकं विशुद्धम् ।
विज्ञायैतद्यथावच्छ्रुतिमुनिगदितं शोकमोहावतीतः ।
सर्वज्ञः सर्वकृत्स्याद्भवभयरहितो ब्राह्मणोऽवाप्तकृत्यः ॥ ८२ ॥
82. Having gained a perfect knowledge of bondage
and liberation with their causes (viz., Ignorance and
Knowledge respectively), having acquired a complete
understanding of the cause¹ and effect² which are
objects of knowledge and are, (therefore,) to be negated,
and having properly known the one supreme and pure
Truth (to be the Self) which is beyond all objects of
knowledge, known in the Vedântas and taught by Śrutis
and knowers of Brahman one stands freed from the fear
of being born again, becomes all-knowing, has every-
thing accomplished, goes beyond grief and delusion and,
(therefore,) has the acme of his life fulfilled.
न स्वयं स्वस्य नान्यश्च नान्यस्यात्मा च हेयगः ।
उपादेयो न चाप्येवमिति सम्यङ्मतिः स्मृता ॥ ८३ ॥
83. The Self cannot be accepted or rejected by
Itself or others, nor does It accept or reject anyone else.
This is right Knowledge.
¹ एकं in the text. ² द्वयं in the text.