उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

72 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS
लोष्टादीनाम्। श्रोत्रादिद्वारैश्च ज्ञायन्ते। येन च ज्ञायन्ते सः ज्ञातृ-
त्वात् अतज्जातीयः। ते हि शब्दादयः अन्योन्यसंसर्गित्वात्
जन्मवृद्धिपरिणामापक्षयनाशसंयोगवियोगाविर्भावतिरोभाववि-
कारविकारिक्षेत्रबीजाद्यनेकधर्माणः, सामान्येन च सुखदुःखाद्य-
नेककर्माणः। तद्विज्ञातृत्वादेव तद्विज्ञाता सर्वशब्दादिधर्मवि-
लक्षणः ॥ ११३ ॥
113. As they are perceived by the ear and the other
senses the objects called sound, touch, sight, taste and
smell have no knowledge of themselves or of other
things. Transformed (into the body and other things)
they, like brickbats, are (known to lack in the said
knowledge). Moreover, they are known through the
ear etc. Being the knower that by which they are known
is quite of a different nature. For, connected with one
another those sound and other objects are possessed of
various properties such as, birth, growth, change of
condition, decline, death, contact, separation, appear-
ance, disappearance, cause, effect and sex. All of
them produce various effects like pleasure, pain
and so on. The knower¹ of sound and the like
is of a nature different from theirs as It is the
knower.
तत्र शब्दादिभिः उपलभ्यमानैः पीड्यमानो विद्वान् एवं परि-
संचक्षीत ॥ ११४ ॥
शब्दस्तु ध्वनिसामान्यमात्रेण, विशेषधर्मैर्वा षड्जादिभिः,
प्रियैः स्तुत्यादिभिः इष्टैः, अनिष्टैश्च असत्यबीभत्सपरिभवाक्रो-
¹ The Self.