उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

18 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS नादेव । सत्याभिसन्धस्य अतस्करस्येव दाहाद्यभाववत् संसारा- भावं दर्शयन्ति दृष्टान्तेन, भेददर्शनादसत्याभिसन्धस्य संसार- गमनं दर्शयन्ति तस्करस्येव दाहादिदृष्टान्तेन ॥ २८ ॥ 28. " That, on the other hand, liberation results from the acceptance of (the reality of) non-difference is borne out by thousands of Śrutis; for example, after teaching that the individual Self is not different from the supreme One in the text, " That ¹ is the Self, thou art That', and after saying, ' A ² man who has a teacher knows Brahman' the Śrutis prove liberation to be the result of the knowledge of (the reality of) non-difference only, by saying ' A ³ knower of Brahman has to wait only so long as he is not merged in Brahman'. That transmigratory existence comes to an absolute cessation, (in the case of one who speaks the truth that difference has no real existence), is illustrated by the example of one ⁴ who was not a thief and did not get burnt (by grasping a heated hatchet ;) and that one, speaking what is not true (i.e. the reality of difference), continues to be in the mundane condition is illustrated by the example of a thief who got burnt. 'त इह व्याघ्रो वा' इत्यादिना च अभेददर्शनात् 'स स्वराट् भवति' इत्युक्त्वा तद्विपरीतेन भेददर्शनेन संसारगमनं दर्शयन्ति—'अथ येऽन्यथाऽतो विदुरन्यराजानस्ते क्षय्यलोका भवन्ति' इति प्रतिशाखम् । तस्मान्मृषैवैवमवादीः—ब्राह्मण- पुत्रोऽदोन्वयः संसारी परमात्मविलक्षण इति ॥ २९ ॥ ¹ Chh. U., 6. 13. 3. ² Chh. U., 6. 14. 2. ³ Chh. U., 6. 14. 2. ⁴ Chh. U., 6. 16. 1—3.