उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

A METHOD OF ENLIGHTENING THE DISCIPLE 29
दर्शननिन्दोपपत्तेरविद्याकृतं द्वैतम् ‘एकमेवाद्वितीयम्’, ‘यत्र
त्वस्य’, ‘तत्र को मोहः कः शोकः’ इत्याद्येकत्वविधिश्रुति-
भ्यश्चेति ॥ ४० ॥
40. The teacher should say “Whatever is observed
(in this world) or learnt from the Srutis (regarding the
next world) are products of Ignorance. But in reality
there is only One, the Self who appears to be many to
deluded vision, like the moon appearing to be more than
one to eyes affected by amaurosis. That duality is the
product of Ignorance follows from the reasonableness
of the condemnation by the Srutis of the acceptance of
(the reality of) difference such as, ‘When¹ there is
something else as it were,’ ‘When² there is duality
as it were, one sees another,’ ‘He³ goes from death
to death,’ ‘And⁴ where one sees something else,
hears something else, cognizes something else, that
is finite, and that which is finite is mortal,’ ‘Modifica-
tions⁵ (i.e., effects e.g., earthen jars) being only
names, have for their support words only, it is earth
alone (i.e., the cause) that is real’ and ‘He⁶ is one, I am
another.’ The same thing follows from the Srutis teach-
ing unity, for example, ‘One⁷ only without a second,’
‘When⁸ the knower of Brahman’ and ‘What⁹ delusion
or grief is there?’”
यद्येवं भगवन्, किमर्थं श्रुत्या साध्यसाधनादिभेद उच्यते
उत्पत्तिः प्रलयश्चेति ॥ ४१ ॥
¹ Br. U., 4. 3. 31. ² Br. U., 2. 4. 14. ³ Br. U., 4. 4. 19.
⁴ Chh. U., 7. 24. 1. ⁵ Chh. U., 6. 1. 4. ⁶ Br. U., 1. 4. 10.
⁷ Chh. U., 6. 2. 1. ⁸ Br. U., 4. 5. 15. ⁹ Îsh. U., 7.