उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

6-13] LIGHT 125 9. How can there be knowledge or ignorance in Me who am eternal and always of the nature of Pure Consciousness ? No knowledge,¹ therefore, other than the Self ² can be accepted. यत्स्थस्तापो रवेर्देहे दृशेः स विषयो यथा । तत्त्वस्थस्तद्वद्देहं दृशेः स विषयस्तथा ॥ १० ॥ 10. Just as the heat of the sun (in a part of the body) together with that part of the body is the object of the knower, so, pain and pleasure together with the intellect in which they lie are the objects of the Self. प्रतिषिद्धेदमंशज्ञः खमिवैकरसोऽद्वयः । नित्यमुक्तः सदा शुद्धः सोऽहं ब्रह्मास्मि केवलः ॥ ११ ॥ 11. I am Brahman without attributes, ever pure, ever free, non-dual, homogeneous like the ether and of the nature of Consciousness from which the object portion ³ has been negated.⁴ विज्ञातुर्नैव विज्ञाता परोऽन्यः संभवत्यतः । विज्ञाताहं परो मुक्तः सर्वभूतेषु सर्वदा ॥ १२ ॥ 12. I am always the free ⁵ supreme Knower in all beings inasmuch as there cannot be a more compre- hensive knower different from Me. यो वेदालुप्तदृष्टित्वमात्मनोऽकर्तृतां तथा । ब्रह्मवित्त्वं तथा मुक्त्वा स आत्मज्ञो न चेतरः ॥ १३ ॥ ¹ A mental modification with the reflection of Consciousness in it. ² Pure Knowledge. ³ See foot-note 3, verse 2, Chapter II. ⁴ On the authority of the Sruti, 'Not this, not this.' ⁵ Because untouched by the properties of objects of knowledge.