उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

A METHOD OF ENLIGHTENING THE DISCIPLE 11
लब्धपरमात्मलक्षणस्मृतये ब्रूयात् — योऽसावाकाशनामा नाम-
रूपाभ्यामर्थान्तरभूतः अशरीरः अस्थूलादिलक्षणः अपहत-
पाप्मादिलक्षणश्च सर्वैः संसारधर्मैः अनागन्धितः ‘यत्तत्साक्षाद्-
परोक्षाद्ब्रह्म’, ‘य आत्मा सर्वान्तरः’, ‘अदृष्टो द्रष्टा अश्रुतः
श्रोता अमतो मन्ता अविज्ञातो विज्ञाता’ नित्यविज्ञानस्वरूपः,
अनन्तरः अबाह्यः विज्ञानघन एव, परिपूर्णः आकाशवत्, अन-
न्तशक्तिः, आत्मा सर्वस्य, अशनायादिवर्जितः, आविर्भावतिरो-
भाववर्जितश्च, स्वात्मविलक्षणयोः नामरूपयोः जगद्बीजभूतयोः
स्वात्मस्थयोः तत्त्वान्यत्वाभ्यामनिर्वचनीययोः स्वसंवेद्ययोः
सद्भावमात्रेणाचिन्त्यशक्तित्वाद् व्याकर्ता अव्याकृतयोः ॥ १८ ॥
18. The teacher should say to the disciple who has
remembered the definition of the Self, “That which is
called Âkâsha (the self-effulgent one) which is distinct
from name and form, bodiless and defined as not gross
etc., and as free from sins and so on, which is untouched
by all transmigratory conditions, ‘The Brahman¹ that
is immediate and direct,’ ‘The innermost² Self,’ ‘The
unseen³ seer, the unheard listener, the unthought
thinker, the unknown knower’, which is of the nature
of eternal knowledge, without interior or exterior, con-
sisting only of knowledge, all-pervading like the ether
and of infinite power—that Self of all devoid of hunger
etc., as also appearance and disappearance, is, by
virtue of Its inscrutable power, the cause of the manifes-
tation of unmanifested name and form which abide in
the Self through Its very presence,⁴ but are different from
¹ Br. U., 3. 4. 1. ² Br. U., 3. 4. 1. ³ Br. U., 3. 7. 23.
⁴ They have no existence of their own apart from that of the Self.