उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

7-15] EYELESSNESS 131 11. One should always remember the Self to be ever-free, unborn and comprising¹ the interior and exterior as described in the Sruti in which the Self is spoken of as 'eyeless'² and so on if one is an aspirant after liberation. अचक्षुष्कादिशास्त्राच्च नेन्द्रियाणि सदा मम । अप्राणो ह्यमनाः शुभ्र इति चाथर्वणेर्वचः ॥ १२ ॥ 12. That organs never belong to me is known from the Sruti, 'eyeless'² etc. There is again the saying of the _Sruti_³ belonging to the Atharva Veda that the Self is 'devoid of the vital force, devoid of the mind and pure.' शब्दादीनामभावश्च श्रूयते मम काठके । अप्राणो ह्यमना यस्मादविकारी सदा ह्यहम् ॥ १३ ॥ 13. As I am always devoid⁴ of the vital force and the mind and heard of in the _Kathopanishat_⁵ as having no connection with sound etc. I am always changeless. विक्षेपो नास्ति तस्मान्मे न समाधिस्ततो मम । विक्षेपो वा समाधिर्वा मनसः स्याद्विकारिणः ॥ १४ ॥ 14. I, therefore, have neither unrestfulness nor a profound concentration. Both of them belong to the mind which is subject to change. अमनस्कस्य शुद्धस्य कथं तत्स्याद् द्वयं मम । अमनस्त्वाविकारित्वे विदेहव्यापिनो मम ॥ १५ ॥ ¹ See foot-note ² verse 43, Chapter 17 and also see Mu. U., 2. 1. 2. ² Br. U., 3. 8. 8. ³ Mu. U., 2. 1. 2. (Thus both the Srutis prove the same thing.) ⁴ Mu. U., 2. 1. 2. ⁵ Kath. U., 1. 3. 15.