उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

292 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIX
मिथश्च भिन्ना यदि ते हि चेतनाः क्षयस्तु तेषां परि-
माणयोगतः । ध्रुवो भवेद्भेदवतां हि दृष्टतो जगत्क्षय-
श्चापि समस्तमोक्षतः ॥ ११ ॥
11. If, according to you, souls were mutually dif-
ferent and so·limited (by one another) they would
meet with destruction as all such things are seen to
come to an end. Again, all being liberated, the whole
world would meet with extinction.
न मेऽस्ति कश्चिन्न च सोऽस्मि कस्यचिद्यतोऽद्वयोऽहं
न हि चास्ति कल्पितम् । अकल्पितश्चास्मि पुरा प्रसि-
द्धितो विकल्पनाया द्वयमेव कल्पितम् ॥ १२ ॥
12. There is no one who belongs to me nor is
there anyone to whom I belong as I am without a
second. The (world which is) superimposed does not
exist. My existence¹ being known to be anterior to
superimposition, I am not superimposed. It is duality
only that is so.
विकल्पना चाप्यभवे न विद्यते सदन्यदित्येवमतो न
नास्तिता । यतः प्रवृत्ता तव चापि कल्पना पुरा
प्रसिद्धेर्न च तद्विकल्पितम् ॥ १३ ॥
13. The unborn Self² can never be regarded as
non-existent because there cannot be the superimposi-
tion of existence or non-existence on It. What exists
¹ The Final substratum of all superimposition.
² The Self, the substratum of all superimposition.