उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

A METHOD OF ENLIGHTENING THE DISCIPLE 23 मे वेदना उरसि उदरे इति वा यत्र दाहादिस्तत्रैव व्यपदि- शति, न तूपलब्धरीति । यद्युपलब्धरि वेदना स्यात्, वेदनानिमित्तं वा दाहच्छेदादि, वेदनाश्रयत्वेनोपदिशेद्दाहा- द्याश्रयवत् ॥ ३४ ॥ 34. The teacher should say to him, “ It was not right for you to say, ‘ I directly perceive the pain in me when my body gets cuts or burns ’. Why ? Because the pain due to cuts or burns, perceived in the body,¹ the object of the perception of the perceiver like a tree burnt or cut, must have the same location as the burns etc. People point out pain caused by burns and the like to be in that place where they occur but not in the perceiver. How ? For, on being asked where one's pain lies, one says, ‘ I have pain in the head, in the chest or in the stomach ’. Thus one points out pain in that place where burns or cuts occur, but never in the perceiver. If pain or its causes viz., burns or cuts were in the perceiver one would have pointed out the per- ceiver to be the seat of the pain, like the parts of the body, the seats of the burns or cuts. स्वयं च नोपलभ्येत चक्षुर्गतद्रूपवत् । तस्मात् दाहच्छेदादि- समानाश्रयत्वेन उपलभ्यमानत्वाद्दाहादिवत् कर्मभूतैव वेदना । भावरूपत्वाच्च साश्रया तण्डुलपाकवत् । वेदनासमानाश्नय एव तत्संस्कारः । स्मृतिसमानकाल एवोपलभ्यमानत्वात् वेदना- विषयः । तन्निमित्तविषयश्च द्वेषोऽपि संस्कारसमानाश्नय एव । ¹ Pain is located in the body, it is true, but as a matter of fact it is in the mind.