उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

94-100] 'THOU ART THAT' 247 means by which the meaning implied by the word 'I' may be ascertained.¹ नाद्राक्षमहमित्यस्मिन्सुषुप्तेऽन्यन्मनागपि । न वारयति दृष्टिं स्वां प्रत्ययं तु निषेधति ॥ ९७ ॥ 97. (Waking up from deep sleep one says) 'I did not see anything at all in that state.' (From this it is clear that) one denies the existence of the mental modifications, (the knower, knowing and the known) in deep sleep but not that of Knowledge Itself. स्वयंज्योतिर्न हि द्रष्टुरित्येवं संविदोऽस्तिताम् । स्वयमेवाब्रवीच्छास्त्रं प्रत्ययावगती पृथक् ॥ ९८ ॥ 98. The scriptures themselves discriminate between Knowledge Itself on the one hand, and the mental modifications, (the knower, knowing and the known) on the other and prove that the former is changeless and really existing and that the latter deviate from existence, as they say 'It is self-luminous ²' and 'The Know- ledge ³ of the knower does not (cease to exist).' एवं विज्ञातवाक्यार्थे श्रुतिलोकप्रसिद्धितः । श्रुतिस्तत्त्वमसीत्याह श्रोतुर्मोहापनुत्तये ॥ ९९ ॥ ब्रह्मा दाशरथेर्यद्वदुक्त्यैवापानुदत्तमः । तस्य विष्णुत्वसंबोधे न यत्नान्तरमूचिवान् ॥ १०० ॥ ¹ But not the absolute oneness of the meanings of the word, 'thou' and 'that'. See verse 99 of this chapter. ² Br. U., 4. 3. 9. ³ Br. U., 4. 3. 23.