उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

1-5] LIGHT 123 force they appear to be conscious and cannot, therefore, be discriminated from the Self.] दशमस्य नवात्मत्वप्रतिपत्तिवदात्मनः । दृश्येषु तद्ग्रहेऽवायं मूढो लोको न चान्यथा ॥ ३ ॥ 3. An ignorant man gets identified with objects ¹ of knowledge and does not know the Self (which is different from them) like the tenth ² boy who got identi- fied as it were with the other nine. त्वं कुरु त्वं तदेवेति प्रत्ययावेककालिकौ । एकनीडौ कथं स्यातां विरुद्धौ न्यायतो वद ॥ ४ ॥ 4. Say how there can reasonably by the two con- trary ideas, ‘You do this’ and ‘You are Brahman’ ³ at the same time and in respect of the same person. देहाभिमानिनो दुःखं नादेहस्य स्वभावतः । स्वापवत्तत्प्रहाणाय तत्त्वमित्युच्यते दृशेः ॥ ५ ॥ 5. Pain belongs to one identifying oneself with the body. One not identifying oneself with it, as in deep sleep, is, therefore, by nature free from pain. The teaching, ‘Thou art That’ is imparted in order that this identification ⁴ might be removed ⁵ from the Self. ¹ See foot-note, verse 2 above. ² After swimming across a river one of ten boys counted their number and found that they were only nine. The reason for this was that the boy did not count himself. He got, as it were, identi- fied with the other nine and could not find that he was the tenth. But he came to know that he was the tenth when he was told so. ³ Which is a non-doer. ⁴ Together with Ignorance, its cause. ⁵ The unity of the Self and Brahman is here taught and not action.