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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
श्रीगुरुरुवाच ।
सत्यमुक्तं त्वया विद्वन्निपुणोऽसि विचारणे ।
अहमादिविकारास्ते तदभावोऽयमप्यनु ॥ २१३ ॥
सर्वे येनानुभूयन्ते यः स्वयं नानुभूयते ।
तमात्मानं वेदितारं विद्धि बुद्धया सुसूक्ष्मया ॥ २१४ ॥
The Guru answered:
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213-214. Thou hast rightly said, O learned man! Thou
art clever indeed in discrimination. That by which all
those modifications such as egoism as well as their subse-
quent absence (during deep sleep) are perceived, but which
Itself is not perceived, know thou that Atman-the Knower
--through the sharpest intellect.
[The argument is this: The Atman as the eternal subject must
always remain. Otherwise knowledge itself would be impossible. Even
in the Susupti state there must be the eternal subject behind to record
the blissful memory of that state. To take a familiar example: In a
cinema there must be the screen to allow the moving pictures to coalesce
and form a connected whole. Motion presupposes rest. So the ever-
changing Prakrti must have behind it the immutable Ätnian.
VThrough etc. - An echo of Katha, I. iii. 12.]
तत्साक्षिकं भवेत्तत्तद्यद्यद्येनानुभूयते ।
कस्याप्यननुभूतार्थे साक्षित्वं नोपयुज्यते ॥ २१५ ॥
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215: That which is perccived by something else has for
its witness the latter. When there is no agent to perceive a
thing, we cannot speak of it as having been perceived at
all.
श्रीगुरुरुवाच ।
सत्यमुक्तं त्वया विद्वन्निपुणोऽसि विचारणे ।
अहमादिविकारास्ते तदभावोऽयमप्यनु ॥ २१३ ॥
सर्वे येनानुभूयन्ते यः स्वयं नानुभूयते ।
तमात्मानं वेदितारं विद्धि बुद्धया सुसूक्ष्मया ॥ २१४ ॥
The Guru answered:
83
15532
213-214. Thou hast rightly said, O learned man! Thou
art clever indeed in discrimination. That by which all
those modifications such as egoism as well as their subse-
quent absence (during deep sleep) are perceived, but which
Itself is not perceived, know thou that Atman-the Knower
--through the sharpest intellect.
[The argument is this: The Atman as the eternal subject must
always remain. Otherwise knowledge itself would be impossible. Even
in the Susupti state there must be the eternal subject behind to record
the blissful memory of that state. To take a familiar example: In a
cinema there must be the screen to allow the moving pictures to coalesce
and form a connected whole. Motion presupposes rest. So the ever-
changing Prakrti must have behind it the immutable Ätnian.
VThrough etc. - An echo of Katha, I. iii. 12.]
तत्साक्षिकं भवेत्तत्तद्यद्यद्येनानुभूयते ।
कस्याप्यननुभूतार्थे साक्षित्वं नोपयुज्यते ॥ २१५ ॥
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215: That which is perccived by something else has for
its witness the latter. When there is no agent to perceive a
thing, we cannot speak of it as having been perceived at
all.