उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

160-166] ' THOU ART THAT ' 267 it). Otherwise the Self (which is different from the body) is never pained. Owing to there being burns etc. in one man another is not pained. अस्पर्शात्वाददेहत्वान्नाहं दाह्यो यतः सदा । तस्मान्मिथ्याभिमानोत्थं मृते पुत्रे मृतिर्यथा ॥ १६४ ॥ 164. As I am not touched ¹ by anything and do not possess a body I am never susceptible of being burnt. Pain arises from the wrong notion (due to a false identification with the body) like the wrong notion of one being dead at the death of one's son. कुण्डल्यहमिति ह्येतद्बाध्येतैव विवेकिना । दुःखीति प्रत्ययस्तद्वत्केवलाहंधिया सह ॥ १६५ ॥ 165. Just as the wrong notion, 'I possess an ear- ring' is removed when the right ² knowledge regarding it arises, so, the false consciousness, 'I am unhappy' is negated by the right knowledge, 'I am Pure Brahman'. सिद्धे दुःखित्व इष्टं स्यात्तच्छक्तिश्छन्दसात्मनः । मिथ्याभिमानतो दुःखी तेनार्थापादनक्षमः ॥ १६६ ॥ 166. The Self might be freely imagined to have the potentiality of pain in It if It were proved to possess pain at all. One's identification with the body etc. is the cause of the pain felt and is responsible for the idea of such a potentiality existing in It. ¹ Kath. U., 1. 3. 15. ² I.e., an ear-ring is a piece of gold having no connection with a man.