उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

144 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIV 28. What is the use of his becoming a powerful one or becoming Brahmâ or Indra if all inauspicious desires, the cause of misery, are entirely uprooted ? अहमित्यात्मधीर्या च ममेत्यात्मीयधीरपि । अर्थशून्ये यदा यस्य स आत्मज्ञो भवेत्तदा ॥ २९ ॥ 29. He is a Knower of the Self to whom the ideas ‘me’ and ‘mine’ have become quite meaningless.¹ बुद्ध्यादौ सत्युपाधौ च तथासत्यविशेषता । यस्य चेदात्मनो ज्ञाता तस्य कार्यं कथं भवेत् ॥ ३० ॥ 30. How can there be any action in one who finds no difference in the Self both when ² the intellect etc., Its adjuncts exist and when ³ they do not ? प्रसन्ने विमले व्योम्नि प्रज्ञानैकरसेऽद्वये । उत्पन्नात्मधियो ब्रूत किमन्यत्कार्यमिष्यते ॥ ३१ ॥ 31. Say what action might be desired to be done by one who has known himself to be without a second, who is of the nature of homogeneous consciousness and who is devoid of impurities, both natural and adventitious, like the ether. आत्मानं सर्वभूतस्थममित्रं चात्मनोऽपि यः । पश्यन्निच्छत्यसौ नूनं शीतीकर्तुं विभावसुम् ॥ ३२ ॥ 32. He who sees the Self in all beings and at the same time feels that he has enemies desires surely to make fire cold. ¹ I.e., unreal. ² In waking and dream. ³ In deep sleep.