उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

44 A THOUSAND TEACHINGS be conscious and, therefore, would exist entirely for myself. So it is I, a conscious being, who make that superimposition, the root of all evils, on the Self." इत्युक्तो गुरुरुवाच—अनर्थबीजभूतां चेत् मिथ्याध्यारोपणां जानीषे, मा कार्षीस्तर्हि ॥ ६५ ॥ 65. Thus told the teacher said, “ Do not ¹ make any superimposition if you know it to be the root of all evils.” नैव भगवन्, शक्नोमि न कर्तुम् । अन्येन केनचित् प्रयुक्तोऽहं, न स्वतन्त्र इति ॥ ६६ ॥ 66. Disciple.—“ Sir, I cannot but make it, I am not independent. I am made to act by someone else.” न तर्हि अचितिमत्त्वात् स्वार्थः त्वम् । येन प्रयुक्तः अस्व- तन्त्रः प्रवर्तसे, स चितिमान् स्वार्थः, संघात एव त्वम् ॥ ६७ ॥ 67. Teacher.—“ Then you do not exist for yourself as you are non-conscious. That by which you are made to act like one dependent on another is conscious and exists for itself. You are only a combination (of the body and other things).” यद्यचेतनोऽहं, कथं सुखदुःखवेदनां भवदुक्तं च जानामि ॥६८॥ 68. Disciple.—“How am I conscious of pain and pleasure and also of what you say if I be non-con- scious ?” ¹ i.e., give it up. Know that you are Pure Consciousness and never really identified with the body etc.