उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

290 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIX
5. There is no idea of difference left deluding people
through wrong notions when you are merged.¹ For the
cause of all wrong notions is the perception of (the
reality of) difference. These wrong notions vanish as
soon as one is free from this perception.
न मेऽस्ति मोहस्तव चेष्टितेन हि प्रबुद्धतत्त्वस्त्वसितो
ह्यविक्रियः । न पूर्वतत्त्वोत्तरभेदता हि नो वृथैव
तस्माच्च मनस्तवेहितम् ॥ ६ ॥
6. I am not deluded by your efforts. For I have
known the Truth and am free from all bondage and
change. I have no difference in the conditions preced-
ing the knowledge of Truth and succeeding it. Your
efforts, oh mind, are, therefore, useless.
यतश्च नित्योऽहमतो न चान्यथा विकारयोगे हि भवेद्-
नित्यता । सदा प्रभातोऽहमतो हि चाद्वयो विकल्पितं
चाप्यसदित्यवस्थितम् ॥ ७ ॥
7. As I am eternal I am not otherwise. Transitori-
ness is due to the connection with changes. I am
always self-effulgent and therefore without a second.
It is ascertained that everything created (by the mind)
is non-existent.
अभावरूपं त्वमसीह हे मनो निरीक्ष्यमाणे न हि युक्तितो-
ऽस्तिता । सतो ह्यनाशादसतोऽप्यजन्मतौ द्वयं च
चेतस्तव नास्तितैष्यते ॥ ८ ॥
¹ In Ignorance e.g., in deep sleep.