उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

40 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS desirable. For it contradicts sense-perception etc. Therefore the body and the Self are not mutually superimposed due to Ignorance. (If they are not superimposed) what then ? They are always in the relation of conjunction with each other like pillars and bamboos." ¹ न। अनित्यत्वपरार्थत्वप्रसङ्गात् । संहतत्वात् परार्थत्वं अनि- त्यत्वं च, वंशस्तम्भादिवदेव । किंच यस्तु परैर्देहेन संहतः कल्पित आत्मा स संहतत्वात् परार्थः । तेन असंहतः परोऽन्यो नित्यः सिद्धस्तावत् ॥ ५६ ॥ 56. Teacher.—"It is not so. For in that case there arises the possibility of the Self existing for the benefit of another ² and being non-eternal. The Self, if in con- tact with the body, would be existing for the benefit of another ² and be non-eternal like the combination of pillars and bamboos. Moreover, the Self, supposed by other philosophers to be conjoined with the body, must have an existence for the sake of another.² It is, there- fore, concluded that devoid of contact with the body the Self is eternal and characteristically different from it." तस्यासंहतस्य देहे देहमात्रतया अध्यारोपितत्वेन असत्त्वा- नित्यत्वादिदोषप्रसङ्गो भवति । तत्र निरात्मको देह इति वैना- शिकपक्षप्राप्तिदोषः स्यात् ॥ ५७ ॥ ¹ Just as a combination of pillars and bamboos is called a house, so the combination of the Self and the body is called a man. ² Another conscious Being.