उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

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desirable. For it contradicts sense-perception etc.
Therefore the body and the Self are not mutually
superimposed due to Ignorance. (If they are not
superimposed) what then ? They are always in the
relation of conjunction with each other like pillars and
bamboos." ¹
न। अनित्यत्वपरार्थत्वप्रसङ्गात् । संहतत्वात् परार्थत्वं अनि-
त्यत्वं च, वंशस्तम्भादिवदेव । किंच यस्तु परैर्देहेन संहतः
कल्पित आत्मा स संहतत्वात् परार्थः । तेन असंहतः परोऽन्यो
नित्यः सिद्धस्तावत् ॥ ५६ ॥
56. Teacher.—"It is not so. For in that case there
arises the possibility of the Self existing for the benefit
of another ² and being non-eternal. The Self, if in con-
tact with the body, would be existing for the benefit of
another ² and be non-eternal like the combination of
pillars and bamboos. Moreover, the Self, supposed by
other philosophers to be conjoined with the body, must
have an existence for the sake of another.² It is, there-
fore, concluded that devoid of contact with the body
the Self is eternal and characteristically different
from it."
तस्यासंहतस्य देहे देहमात्रतया अध्यारोपितत्वेन असत्त्वा-
नित्यत्वादिदोषप्रसङ्गो भवति । तत्र निरात्मको देह इति वैना-
शिकपक्षप्राप्तिदोषः स्यात् ॥ ५७ ॥
¹ Just as a combination of pillars and bamboos is called a house,
so the combination of the Self and the body is called a man.
² Another conscious Being.