उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

134 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIII (is wrongly conceived to) exist in one and the same ether owing to apertures (in various objects). भेदोऽभेदस्तथा चैको नाना चेति विकल्पितः । ज्ञेयं ज्ञाता गतिर्गन्ता मय्येकस्मिन्कुतो भवेत् ॥ २३ ॥ 23. How can difference, absence of difference, one- ness, manyness and the qualities of being known and being a knower, the results of actions and also agency and experiencing be attributed to Me who am one only ? न मे हेयं न चादेयमविकारी यतो ह्यहम् । सदा मुक्तस्तथा शुद्धः सदा बुद्धोऽगुणोऽद्वयः ॥ २४ ॥ 24. I have nothing to reject or accept inasmuch as I am changeless. Always free, pure, awakened and without qualities, I am without a second. इत्येवं सर्वदात्मानं विद्यात्सर्वं समाहितः । विदित्वा मां स्वदेहस्थमृषिर्मुक्तो ध्रुवो भवेत् ॥ २५ ॥ 25. One should, with great concentration of mind, always know the Self to be All.¹ One certainly be- comes all-knowing and free when one knows Me to be residing is one's own body.² कृतकृत्यश्च सिद्धश्च योगी ब्राह्मण एव च । य एवं वेद तत्त्वार्थमन्यथा ह्यात्महा भवेत् ॥ २६ ॥ 26. He who thus knows the reality of the Self becomes successful in attaining the goal of his life and ¹ Brahman. ² As the witness of the body gross and subtle.