उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

298 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS [CHAP. XIX 24. Things either immutable or transitory cannot have any relation with other things or with themselves. Therefore it is not reasonable that they should have any effects. So nothing belongs to anything else. The Self Itself is also not (directly) within the scope of words.¹ समं तु तस्मात्सततं विभातवद्द्वयाद्विमुक्तं सदसद्वि- कल्पितात् । निरीक्ष्य युक्त्या श्रुतितस्तु बुद्धिमानशेष- निर्वाणमुपैति दीपवत् ॥ २५ ॥ 25. A wise man immediately meets with the com- plete extinction of bondage like the (extinguishing of) a lamp when he knows through reasoning and the Srutis (the Self) which is the same in all conditions, always of the nature of self-effulgent Consciousness and free from duality fancied to be existing or non- existing. अवेद्यमेकं यदनन्यवेदिनां कुतार्किकाणां च सुवेद्य- मन्यथा । निरीक्ष्य चेत्थं त्वगुणग्रहोऽगुणं न याति मोहं ग्रहदोषमुक्तितः ॥ २६ ॥ 26. Knowing the One bereft of the gunas which is unknowable² according to those who know It to be not different from the Self and which is very well knowable² according to those fallaciously argumentative people who wrongly know It to be an object of knowledge a man, thus freed from the Gunas, becomes liberated from the bondage of false notions and is never deluded (again). ¹ This is stated in answer to the objection that being an object of Vedic evidence the Self is related with the Vedas. See verses 29, 30, Ch. 18. ² Ke. U., 2. 3.