उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

32 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS
44. "One, eager to realize this right Knowledge
spoken of in the Sruti, should rise above the desire
for a son, wealth and this ¹ world and the next which
are described in a five-fold ² manner and are the outcome
of a false reference to the Self of castes, orders of life
and so on. As this reference is contradictory to right
Knowledge it is intelligible why reasons are given ³
regarding the prohibition of the acceptance of (the reality
of) difference. For when the Knowledge that the one
non-dual Self is beyond phenomenal existence is
generated by the scriptures and reasoning there cannot
exist (side by side with it) a knowledge contrary to it.
None can think of chillness in fire or immortality and
freedom from old age in regard to the (perishable) body.
One, therefore, who is eager to be established in the
Knowledge of the Reality should give up all actions ⁴
with yajnopavīta and the rest, their accessories, which
are the effects of ignorance."
HERE ENDS A METHOD OF ENLIGHTENING THE DISCIPLE
¹ See foot-notes 1 and 2 on para 2 above.
² Br. U., 1. 4. 17. ³ by the Srutis.
⁴ Obligatory daily duties enjoined by the Vedas occasional rites,
rites performed for some particular object and with a view to future
fruition and actions prohibited by the Vedas.