उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

202 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XVII भानोर्बिम्बं यथा चौष्ण्यं जले दृष्टं न चाम्भसः । बुद्धौ बोधो न तद्धर्मस्तथैव स्याद्विधर्मतः ॥ ३५ ॥ 35. Just as the reflection and the heat of the sun, found in water, do not belong to water, so, Conscious- ness, though perceived in the intellect, is not its quality ; for It is of a nature opposite to that of the intellect. चक्षुर्युक्ता धियो वृत्तिर्या तां पश्यन्नलुप्तदृक् । दृष्टेर्द्रष्टा भवेदात्मा श्रुतेः श्रोता तथा भवेत् ॥ ३६ ॥ केवलां मनसो वृत्तिं पश्यन्मन्ता मतेरजः । विज्ञाताऽलुप्तशक्तित्वात्तथा शास्त्रं नहीत्यतः ॥ ३७ ॥ 36, 37. The Self whose Consciousness never goes out of existence is called the Seer of seeing when it illumines the modification of the intellect connected with the eye, and similarly It is called the Hearer of hearing (and so on). The Unborn One is called the Thinker of thought when It illumines that modification of the mind which is independent of external objects. It is called the Knower as Its power of Consciousness never fails ; so the Sruti¹ says, “The Seeing of the Seer is not destroyed.” ध्यायतीत्यविकारित्वं तथा लेलायतीत्यपि । अत्र स्तेनेति शुद्धत्वं तथाऽनन्वागतं श्रुतेः ॥ ३८ ॥ 38. That the Self is immutable is known from the Srutis, ‘As² if It were at rest’ and ‘It² moves as it ¹ Br. U., 4. 3. 23—30 and verses 6—9, ch. 13 of this book. ² Br. U. 4. 3. 7.