उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

224 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XVIII not liberation which has an eternal existence (and is not achievable by means of any action). पुत्रदुःखं यथाऽध्यस्तं पित्राऽदुःखे स्व आत्मनि । अहंकर्ता तथाऽध्यस्तो नित्यादुःखे स्व आत्मनि ॥ २० ॥ 20. Just as the distress experienced by one's son is superimposed by the father on himself who has no dis- tress at all, so, the ego is superimposed on the Self which is eternally free from any pain whatsoever. सोऽध्यासो नेतिनेतीति प्राप्तवत्प्रतिषिध्यते । भूयोऽध्यासविधिः कश्चित्कुतश्चिन्नोपपद्यते ॥ २१ ॥ 21. This superimposition (of the ego on the Self) is negated on the evidence of the Sruti ‘ Not this, not this ’, as if ¹ it were a reality. And hence no injunctions ² which are all due to superimposition can by any means be reasonable (after such a negation has taken place). आत्मनीह तथाध्यासः प्रतिषेधस्तथैव च । मलाध्यासनिषेधौ खे क्रियेते च यथाऽबुधैः ॥ २२ ॥ 22. Just as colour is superimposed on and negated from the sky by ignorant people, so, there are the superimposition (of the ego) on the Self and its negation from It. प्राप्तश्चेत्प्रतिषिध्येत मोक्षोऽनित्यो भवेद्ध्रुवम् । अतोऽप्राप्तनिषेधोऽयं दिव्यग्निचयनादिवत् ॥ २३ ॥ ¹ For it is only things superimposed that are negated. ² Such as, the repetition of the sentence.