उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

153-159] ' THOU ART THAT ' 265
156. Just as a jar ¹ placed in the sun may be said to
be mounted on light, so, an object in the intellect may
be said to be mounted on it. Being mounted is nothing
but being pervaded by the intellect. Objects become
pervaded by the intellect one after another.
पूर्वं स्यात्प्रत्ययव्याप्तिस्तततोऽनुग्रह आत्मनः ।
कृत्स्नाध्यक्षस्य नो युक्तः कालाकाशादिवत्क्रमः ॥ १५७ ॥
157. The intellect pervades an object (and assumes
its form) when the object is revealed through the help
(i.e., the reflection) of the Self. Like time and space
the all-pervading Self ² can have no order or succession
(in pervading objects).
विषयग्रहणं यस्य कारणापेक्षया भवेत् ।
सत्येवं ग्राह्यशेषे च परिणामी स चित्तवत् ॥ १५८ ॥
158. A thing like the intellect that depends on the
agent etc. in pervading its objects (and does not
pervade all objects at the same time,) some being
always Ieft unpervaded, is liable to transformation.
अध्यक्षोऽहमिति ज्ञानं बुद्धेरेव विनिश्चयः ।
नाध्यक्षस्याविशेषत्वान्न तस्यास्ति परो यतः ॥ १५९ ॥
159. It is to the intellect and not to the Self which
is immutable that the knowledge, 'I am Brahman'
¹ See verse 6, chap. 14.
² See verse 7, chap. 14.