उपदेशसाहस्री (आदि शङ्कराचार्य - गद्य व पद्य भाग)

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHANGELESS 49 sake they, like sound etc., exist only when known by one ¹ different from them. Though the Self is not a combination, consists of Consciousness and exists for Its own sake, It is the knower ² of the mental modifi- cations appearing to be blue, yellow and so on. It must, therefore, be of a changeful nature. Hence is the doubt about the changeless nature of the Self." तं गुरुरुवाच—न युक्तस्तव संशयः । यतस्तेषां प्रत्ययानां नियमेन अशेषतः उपलब्धेरेव अपरिणामित्वात् कूटस्थत्वसिद्धौ, निश्चयहेतुमेव अशेषचित्तप्रचारोपलब्धिं संशयहेतुमात्थ । यदि हि तव परिणामित्वं स्यात्, अशेषस्वविषयचित्तप्रचारोपलब्धिर्न स्यात्, चित्तस्येव स्वविषये, यथा चेन्द्रियाणां स्वविषयेषु । न च तथाऽऽत्मनस्तव स्वविषयैकदेशोपलब्धिः । अतः कूटस्थतैव तवेति ॥ ७५ ॥ 75. The teacher said to him, "Your doubt is not justifiable. For you, the Self, are proved to be free from change, and therefore perpetually the same on the ground that all the modifications of the mind without a single exception are (simultaneously) known by you. You regard this knowledge of all the modifications which is the reason for the above inference as that for your doubt. If you were changeful like the mind or the senses (which pervade their objects one after another), you would not simultaneously know all the mental modifications, the objects of your knowledge. Nor are you aware of a portion only of the objects of your ¹ The Self. ² The disciple means the agent of the action of knowing the modifications. 4