उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

146-152] 'THOU ART THAT' 263
नामजात्यादयो यद्वत्संविदस्तद्विशेषतः ॥ १४९ ॥
149. Just as names, species, etc. do not qualify
Knowledge) according to you as it has no special
properties, (so, the negation of a non-cow, hornless-
ness etc. do not qualify a cow).
प्रत्यक्षमनुमानं वा व्यवहारे यदिच्छसि ।
क्रियाकारकभेदैस्तदभ्युपेयं ध्रुवं भवेत् ॥ १५० ॥
150. You have to admit difference as you have to
accept sense-perception and inference consisting of
actions, agents and so on in everyday life.
तस्मान्नीलं तथा पीतं घटादिर्वा विशेषणम् ।
संविदस्तदुपैयं स्याद्येन चाप्यनुभूयते ॥ १५१ ॥
151. Entities qualifying knowledge such as, jars,
blue, yellow, etc. and also the knower by which these
are known must be accepted.¹
रूपादीनां यथान्यः स्याद्ग्राह्यत्वादग्राहकस्तथा ।
प्रत्ययस्तत्तथान्यः स्याद्व्यञ्जकत्वात्प्रदीपवत् ॥ १५२ ॥
152. Just as the perceiver is different from colours
etc. which are perceivable, so, the Knower, the Self,
is different from the modifications of the intellect which
are knowable. (Again) just as a lamp revealing things
¹ Here ends the refutation of the Idealists begun in verse 141
above.
Hence in addition to knowledge the knower and the known also
must be accepted. See verses 141 and 142.