उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

16-20] A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE SELF AND MIND 295 18. According to the Śruti¹ It is of a nature contrary to that of superimposition. This One is without a second as It is also known to have an eternal existence even prior to all superimposition. Unlike everything superimposed on It, which is negated on the evidence of the Śruti,² ‘Not this, not this’, It is not negated and, therefore, left over. अकल्पितेऽप्येवमजेऽद्वयेऽक्षरे विकल्पयन्तः सदसच्च जन्मभिः । स्वचित्तमायाप्रभवं च ते भवं जरां च मृत्युं च नियान्ति संततम् ॥ १९ ॥ 19. Those who, owing to false notions in their own minds, superimpose the ideas of existence, non-existence, etc.³ on the Self which is not Itself superimposed and is birthless, imperishable and without a second always meet with birth, old age and death as different kinds of beings. भवाभवत्वं तु न चेदवस्थितिर्न चास्य चान्यस्थिति जन्म नान्यथा । सतो ह्यसत्त्वादसतश्च सत्त्वतो न च क्रिया कारकमित्यतोऽप्यजम् ॥ २० ॥ 20. (Duality) can have no reality if both its birth and absence of birth are denied (owing to the possi- bility of contradictions). Again it cannot owe its origin⁴ to another thing either real or unreal. For in that case, (being the origin of duality) reality would become ¹ Sw. U., 6. 19. ² Br. U., 2. 3. 6. ³ Qualified, non-qualified, agent, non-agent and so on. ⁴ See G. K. 4. 22 and 4. 40.