उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHANGELESS 63
102. Disciple.—“ How can the Knower be a Knower
if he is not the seat of the knowledge produced by
evidences ?”
उच्यते—प्रमायाः नित्यत्वे अनित्यत्वे च रूपविशेषाभावात् ।
अवगतिर्हि प्रमा । तस्याः स्मृतीच्छादिपूर्विकायाः अनित्यायाः,
कूटस्थनित्याया वा, न स्वरूपविशेषो विद्यते । यथा धात्वर्थस्य
तिष्ठत्यादेः फलस्य गत्यादिपूर्वकस्य अनित्यस्य अपूर्वस्य नित्यस्य
वा, रूपविशेषो नास्तीति तुल्यो व्यपदेशो दृष्टः—तिष्ठन्ति
मनुष्याः, तिष्ठन्ति पर्वताः इत्यादि, तथा नित्यावगतिस्व-
रूपेऽपि प्रमातरि प्रमातृत्वव्यपदेशो न विरुध्यते, फलसामान्या-
दिति ॥ १०३ ॥
103. The teacher said, “ The knowledge ¹ produced
by an evidence does not differ in its essential nature
whether one calls it eternal or transitory. Knowledge
(though) produced by an evidence is nothing but know-
ledge. The knowledge preceded ² by memory, desire,
etc. and supposed to be transitory, and that which is
eternal and immutable do not differ in their essential
nature. Just as the result of the transitory actions of
standing etc., the meanings of roots, preceded by
motion etc. and that of the permanent ones not so
preceded do not differ in their essential nature, and
there are, therefore, the identical predicates in the state-
ments, ‘ People stand ’, ‘ Mountains stand ’, etc. ; so,
the Knower, though of the nature of eternal Knowledge,
¹ True knowledge as opposed to delusion, See note 1, para
94 above. ² See para 99 above.