उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

114 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. X अविद्याया भावनया च कर्मभि- विविक्त आत्माऽव्यवधिः सुनिर्मलः । दृगादिशक्तिप्रचितोऽहमद्वयः स्थितः स्वरूपे गगनं यथाऽचलम् ॥ ९ ॥ 9. Not distanced¹ by anything from Itself and un- touched by Ignorance, by false conceptions (of possess- ing a body etc.) and by actions the Self is very pure. Without a second and established in My real nature like the immovable ether I am (thought² to be) connected with the powers of seeing and other perceptions. अहं परं ब्रह्म विनिश्चयात्मदृङ् न जायते भूय इति श्रुतेर्वचः । न चैव बीजे त्वसति प्रजायते फलं न जन्मास्ति ततो ह्यमोहता ॥ १० ॥ 10. There is the saying of the Śruti³ that one who has the sure conviction about oneself that one is Brah- man is never born again. There being no⁴ delusion, there is no birth. For, when the cause is not there there cannot be any effect. ममेदमित्थं च तथेदमीदृशं तथाहमेवं न परो न वान्यथा । विमूढतैवं न जनस्य कल्पना सदा समे ब्रह्मणि चाद्वये शिवे ॥ ११ ॥ 11. False conceptions of people such as, ‘mine,’ ‘this,’ ‘thus,’ ‘this is so,’ ‘I am so,’ ‘another is not so,’ etc., are all due to delusion. They are never in Brahman which is auspicious, the same in all and without a second. ¹ See footnote 1, p. 60. ² Through Ignorance. ³ Kath. U., 1. 3. 8. ⁴ For one has known the Self.