उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

27-33] " CONSISTING OF EARTH " 177 मृषाध्यासस्तु यत्र स्यात्तन्नाशस्तत्र नो मतः । सर्वनाशो भवेद्यस्य मोक्षः कस्य फलं वद ॥ ३० ॥ 30. Our doctrine is that there is false superimposi- tion on the Self and its negation in the same Self. Please¹ tell me who will attain liberation, the result of Knowledge according to you who hold that all (i.e. both the superimposed and the substratum) are annihilated. अस्ति तावत्स्वयं नाम ज्ञानं वात्मान्यदेव वा । भावाभावज्ञतस्तस्य नाभावस्त्वधिगम्यते ॥ ३१ ॥ 31. That oneself exists is undoubted. You may call it Knowledge, Self or whatever² you like. But Its non-existence cannot be admitted as It is the Witness of all things existing and non-existing.³ येनाधिगम्यतेऽभावस्तत्सत्स्यात्तन्न चेद्भवेत् । भावाभावानभिज्ञत्वं लोकस्य स्यान्न चेष्यते ॥ ३२ ॥ 32. That by which the non-existence of things is witnessed must be real. All would be ignorant of the existence and non-existence of things if that were not the case. Therefore yours is a position² which cannot be accepted. सदसत्सदसच्चेति विकल्पःत्प्राग्यदिष्यते । तदद्वैतं समत्वात्तु नित्यं चान्यद्विकल्पितात् ॥ ३३ ॥ 33. That which must be admitted to exist before the deliberation about existence, non-existence or both ¹ Refutation of Nihilism. ² A void. ³ The author’s doctrine, verses 31—44. 12