उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

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प्रामाण्येऽपि स्मृतेः शैघ्र्याद्यौगपद्यं विभाव्यते ।
क्रमेण ग्रहणं पूर्वं स्मृतेः पश्चात्तथैव च ॥ १२९ ॥
129. (Reply).¹ Though memory is a right evidence
simultaneity is a misconception due to quick perception.
So they were perceived before one after another and
afterwards remembered in the same way.
अज्ञासिषमिदं मां चेत्यपेक्षा जायते ध्रुवम् ।
विशेषोऽपेक्ष्यते यत्र तत्र नैवैककालता ॥ १३० ॥
130. Relative to, and characteristically different
from, each other the things denoted by the words
‘it’ and ‘myself’ in the sentence, ‘I knew it and myself’,
cannot be the objects of simultaneous perception.
आत्मनो ग्रहणे चापि त्रयाणामिह संभवात् ।
आत्मन्यासक्तकर्तृत्वं न स्यात्करणकर्मणोः ॥ १३१ ॥
131. Three things (namely, an agent, an instrument
and an object) are necessary in the perception of each ²
one of the knower, knowledge and the known. (And in
order to avoid a regressus ad infinitum it cannot be said
that each of these three things will prove its own
existence, because) the agency of the agent exhausted
in proving its own existence will not be available to
prove that of the instrument and the object (at the
same time).
¹ Verses 129—132.
² And also in the perception of each one of the agent, the instru-
ment and the object. Hence there arises a regressus ad infinitum
with respect to each of them.
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