उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

A METHOD OF ENLIGHTENING THE DISCIPLE 17
salutations and the like. I am eager to cross the ocean
of the world in this way. So how am I He Himself?"
आचार्यो ब्रूयात्—नैवं सोम्य प्रतिपत्तुमर्हसि, प्रतिषिद्ध-
त्वाद्भेदप्रतिपत्तेः। कथं प्रतिषिद्धा भेदप्रतिपत्तिरित्यत आह—
'अन्योऽसावन्योऽहमस्मीति न स वेद', 'ब्रह्म तं परादाद्यो-
ऽन्यत्रात्मनो ब्रह्म वेद', 'मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव
पश्यति' इत्येवमाद्याः ॥ २६ ॥
26. The teacher should say, "You ought not, my
child, regard it so; because a doctrine of difference is
forbidden." In reply to the question, 'Why is it for-
bidden?' the following other Sruti texts may be cited :
"He$^1$ who knows that Brahman is one and he is another
does not know (Brahman)", "He$^2$ who regards the
Brâhmanical caste as different from himself is rejected$^3$
by that caste." "One$^4$ who views Brahman as if
having diversity in It goes from death to death", and
so on.
एता एव श्रुतयो भेदप्रतिपत्तेः संसारगमनं दर्शयन्ति ॥ २७ ॥
27. These Srutis show that transmigratory existence
is the sure result of the acceptance of (the reality of)
difference.
अभेदप्रतिपत्तेश्च मोक्षं दर्शयन्ति सहस्रशः—'स आत्मा
तत्त्वमसि' इति परमात्मभावं विधाय 'आचार्यवान् पुरुषो वेद'
इत्युक्त्वा 'तस्य तावदेव चिरम्' इति मोक्षं दर्शयन्त्यभेदविज्ञा-
$^1$ Br. U., 1. 4. 10. $^2$ Br. U., 2. 4. 6. $^3$ Makes him disinclined to
$^4$ Br. U., 4, 4. 19. know Brahman.
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