उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

49-55] RIGHT KNOWLEDGE 207 persons or things. For this love, secondary ¹ to that for the Self, is evanescent and entails pain. He then should take refuge in a Teacher who is tranquil, free, bereft of actions and established in Brahman as the Sruti ² and Smriti ³ say “ One having a Teacher knows ” and “ Know that.” स गुरुस्तारयेद्युक्तं शिष्यं शिष्यगुणान्वितम् । ब्रह्मविद्याप्लवेनाशु स्वान्तध्वान्तमहोदधिम् ॥ ५३ ॥ 53. That teacher should immediately take the disciple in the boat of the Knowledge of Brahman across the great ocean of the darkness ⁴ which is within him—the disciple who is of a one-pointed mind and endowed with the qualities ⁵ of a (true) disciple. दृष्टिः स्पृष्टिः श्रुतिर्ध्रातिर्मतिर्विज्ञातिरेव च । शक्तयोऽन्याश्च भिद्यन्ते चिद्रूपत्वेऽप्युपाधिभिः ॥ ५४ ॥ 54. The powers of seeing, touching, hearing, smell- ing, thinking, knowing and so on, though of the nature of Pure Consciousness,⁶ differ on account of adjuncts.⁷ अपायोद्भूतिहीनाभिर्नित्यं दीप्यन्खरविर्यथा । सर्वज्ञः सर्वदृक् शुद्धः सर्वं जानाति सर्वदा ॥ ५५ ॥ 55. Just as the sun illumines the world with its rays which are free from growth and decay, so, the Self ¹ See verses 4 and 5 of this chapter. ² Chh. U., 6. 14. 2. ³ Bh. Gîtâ, 4. 34. ⁴ Ignorance. ⁵ See verse 72, chapter 16. ⁶ See verses 14, 15 and 16 of this chapter. ⁷ The eye etc., the sense organs.