उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

290 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIX 5. There is no idea of difference left deluding people through wrong notions when you are merged.¹ For the cause of all wrong notions is the perception of (the reality of) difference. These wrong notions vanish as soon as one is free from this perception. न मेऽस्ति मोहस्तव चेष्टितेन हि प्रबुद्धतत्त्वस्त्वसितो ह्यविक्रियः । न पूर्वतत्त्वोत्तरभेदता हि नो वृथैव तस्माच्च मनस्तवेहितम् ॥ ६ ॥ 6. I am not deluded by your efforts. For I have known the Truth and am free from all bondage and change. I have no difference in the conditions preced- ing the knowledge of Truth and succeeding it. Your efforts, oh mind, are, therefore, useless. यतश्च नित्योऽहमतो न चान्यथा विकारयोगे हि भवेद्- नित्यता । सदा प्रभातोऽहमतो हि चाद्वयो विकल्पितं चाप्यसदित्यवस्थितम् ॥ ७ ॥ 7. As I am eternal I am not otherwise. Transitori- ness is due to the connection with changes. I am always self-effulgent and therefore without a second. It is ascertained that everything created (by the mind) is non-existent. अभावरूपं त्वमसीह हे मनो निरीक्ष्यमाणे न हि युक्तितो- ऽस्तिता । सतो ह्यनाशादसतोऽप्यजन्मतौ द्वयं च चेतस्तव नास्तितैष्यते ॥ ८ ॥ ¹ In Ignorance e.g., in deep sleep.