उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

130 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIII 7, 8. Similarly, other mental modifications in the forms of objects of knowledge produced through the in- strumentality of other organs and also those in the forms of memory, attachment, etc. existing only within the mind, and those¹ again in dream are witnessed by one different from all of them (i.e., by the Self). The Know- ledge, therefore, of the Knower² is eternal, pure, infinite and without a second. अनित्या साऽविशुद्धेति गृह्यतेऽत्राविवेकतः । सुखी दुःखी तथा चाहं दृश्ययोपाधिभूतया ॥ ९ ॥ 9. It is through the indiscrimination between the Self and the modifications of the mind, Knowable adjuncts to the Self that the Knowledge of the Knower³ is wrongly conceived by the people to be impure and transitory and the Self happy or miserable. मूढया मूढ इत्येवं शुद्धया शुद्ध इत्यपि । मन्यते सर्वलोकोऽयं येन संसारमृच्छति ॥ १० ॥ 10. All men misconceive themselves to be ignorant or pure according as they identify themselves with the mental modification, ‘ I am ignorant ’ or ‘ I am pure ’. It is for this reason that they continue to be in transmigra- tory existence. अचक्षुष्कादिशास्त्रोक्तं सबाह्याभ्यन्तरं त्वजम् । नित्यमुक्तमिहात्मानं मुमुक्षुश्चेत्सदा स्मरेत् ॥ ११ ॥ ¹ These modifications do not assume the forms of external objects but of their impression only. ² I.e., The Self which is Knowledge itself, just as by the heat of fire we mean the heat which is fire itself. ³ See footnote 2 on the two previous verses.