उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

196 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XVII कल्प्योपाधिभिरेवैतद्भिन्नं ज्ञानमनेकधा । आधिभेदाद्यथा भेदो मणेरेकस्य जायते ॥ १६ ॥ 16. Just as the same jewel assumes different colours owing to its proximity to different (coloured) things, so, this Pure Consciousness assumes different forms ¹ on account of various adjuncts which are superimposed on It (in dream). जाग्रतश्च यथा भेदो ज्ञानस्यास्य विकल्पितः । बुद्धिस्थं व्याकरोत्यर्थं भ्रान्त्या तृष्णोद्भवक्रियः ॥ १७ ॥ 17. As in dream, so in the waking state different forms ¹ are superimposed on this Consciousness. It manifests ² the objects of the intellect when it performs actions produced by desires due to delusion. स्वप्ने तद्वत्प्रबोधे यो बहिश्चान्तस्तथैव च । आलेख्‍याध्ययने यद्वत्तदन्योन्यधियोद्भवम् ॥ १८ ॥ 18. The events in the waking state are similar to those in dream. The ideas of the interior and exterior in the former state is as unreal ³ as in the latter like reading ⁴ and writing ⁴ depending on each other. यदायं कल्पयेद्भेदं तत्कामः सन्यथाक्रतुः । यत्कामस्तत्क्रतुर्भूत्वा कृतं यत्तत्प्रपद्यते ॥ १९ ॥ ¹ The knower, the known and the instruments of knowledge. ² See G. K., 2. 13. ³ G. K., 2. 9. 10. ⁴ Reading depends on a written page without which nothing can be read ; and writing also depends on reading as we first read and then write. So both of them are unreal as the sounds represented by written letters are all-pervasive and have no forms. Hence they can neither be really written nor read.