उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

126 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XII 13. He who Knows that the Consciousness of the Self never ceases to exist, and that It is never an agent and also gives up the egoism that he is a Knower¹ of Brahman is a (real) knower of the Self. Others are not so. ज्ञातैवाहऽमविज्ञेयः शुद्धो मुक्तः सदेत्यपि । विवेकी प्रत्ययो बुद्धेर्दृश्यत्वान्नाशवान्यतः ॥ १४ ॥ 14. Capable by no means of being known I am the knower and always free and pure as the discriminat- ing knowledge² is in the intellect³ and liable to be destroyed on account of its being an object of Know- ledge. अलुप्ता त्वात्मनो दृष्टिनोत्पाद्या कारकैर्यतः । दृश्यया चान्यया दृष्ट्या जन्यतास्याः प्रकल्पिता ॥ १५ ॥ 15. The Consciousness⁴ of the Self, on the other hand, never goes out of existence and is not capable of being produced by the action of agents etc. inasmuch as producibility is superimposed on It by another consciousness,⁵ Its object and different from It. देहात्मबुद्ध्यपेक्षत्वादात्मनः कर्तृता मृषा । नैव किंचित्करोमीति सत्या बुद्धिः प्रमाणजा ॥ १६ ॥ ¹ The consciousness 'I am a knower of Brahman' is a modifi- cation of the mind and should not, therefore, be attributed to the Self. ² The modification of the mind, 'I am Brahman.' ³ And not in the Self. ⁴ The Self which is Consciousness. ⁵ Phenomenal consciousness. It contributes its own producibility to the Self on account of superimposition.