उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

274 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XVIII
स्वप्ने दुःख्यहमध्यासं दाहच्छेदादिहेतुतः ।
तत्कालभाविभिर्वाक्यैर्न बाधः क्रियते यदि ॥ १८७ ॥
समाप्तेस्तर्हि दुःखस्य प्राक्च तद्बाध इष्यताम् ।
न हि दुःखस्य संतानो भ्रान्तेर्वा दृश्यते क्वचित् ॥ १८८ ॥
187, 188. (Reply continued). I felt miserable on ac-
count of burns, cuts, etc. in dream (and was freed¹ from
pain through the teaching imparted to me by a man
of knowledge in that state). Even if it be contended
that the teaching in dream negates no pain, (still pain
etc. cannot be regarded as belonging to the Self). For
the absence of pain is there both before² and after²
it is experienced, delusion or a pain being never
unceasing.
प्रत्यगात्मन आत्मत्वं दुःख्यस्मीत्यस्य बाधया ।
दशमं नवमस्येव वेद चेदविरुद्धता ॥ १८९ ॥
189. There is no contradiction if, by negating the
idea that one is unhappy, one knows oneself to be the
Innermost Self (i.e., Brahman) like the bony³ who knew
himself to be the tenth by negating the false motion that
he was the ninth.
नित्यमुक्तत्वविज्ञानं वाक्याद्भवति नान्यतः ।
वाक्यार्थस्यापि विज्ञानं पदार्थस्मृतिपूर्वकम् ॥ १९० ॥
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां पदार्थः स्मर्यते ध्रुवम् ।
एवं निर्दुःखमात्मानमक्रियं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ १९१ ॥
¹ Pain etc. are, therefore, not the properties of the Self.
² G. K. 2. 6. ³ See footnote 2, verse 3, chapter 12.