उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

152 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XV फलान्तं चानुभूतं यद्युतं कत्रादिकारकैः । स्मर्यमाणं हि कर्मस्थं पूर्व कर्मेव तच्चितः ॥ ३ ॥ 3. What is perceived to be connected with kârakas¹ and entailing results² is (found to be) in the (category of) objects when it is remembered. The seat,³ therefore, (in which it was perceived before) was an object⁴ of Consciousness. द्रष्टुश्चान्यद्भवेद्दृश्यं दृश्यत्वाद्वटवत्सदा । दृश्याद्द्रष्टाऽसजातीयो न धीवत्साक्षितान्यथा ॥ ४ ॥ 4. The seen (e. g., the intellect) is always different from the seer as it is an object of knowledge like a jar. The seer is of a nature different from that of the seen. Otherwise the seer would be devoid of the nature of being the witness like the intellect. स्वात्मबुद्धिमपेक्ष्यासौ विधीनां स्यात्प्रयोजकः । जात्यादिः शववत्तेन तद्भानानात्मतान्यथा ॥ ५ ॥ 5. When they are considered to be one's own, caste etc. become the cause of injunctions like a dead⁵ body. They do not, therefore, belong to the Self.⁶ The Self would otherwise⁷ become the non-Self. ¹ (In grammar) the relation subsisting between a noun and a verb in a sentence (or between a noun and other words governing it). ² Pleasure and pain. ³ The intellect. ⁴ See verse 1, Chapter 14. ⁵ A dead body thought to be one's father or mother becomes the cause of being cremated by sons and others. ⁶ Like the dead body which is no longer a father or a mother. ⁷ If caste etc., were regarded as belonging to the Self.