सिद्धे दुःखित्व इष्टं स्यात्तच्छक्तित्वं सदात्मनः । मिथ्याभिमानतो दुःखी तेनार्थापादनक्षयः ॥
siddhe duḥkhitva iṣṭaṃ syāttacchaktitvaṃ sadātmanaḥ | mithyābhimānato duḥkhī tenārthāpādanakṣayaḥ ||
If being in pain were established [in the Self], that capacity would have to be accepted as belonging to the Self always. [But] one is in pain through false identification; therefore the [opponent's] inference collapses.
यदि [आत्मा में] दुःखी होना सिद्ध होता, तो वह शक्ति सदा आत्मा की माननी पड़ती। [पर] मिथ्या अभिमान से ही कोई दुःखी होता है; अतः [विरोधी का] अर्थापत्ति-तर्क नष्ट हो जाता है।
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
If suffering were your very nature, you could never be free of it, yet there are moments when it is absent. That alone shows it is something that happens to you, not what you are.
यदि दुःख आपका स्वभाव होता, तो आप कभी उससे मुक्त न होते, फिर भी ऐसे क्षण आते हैं जब वह नहीं होता। यही दिखाता है कि वह आप पर घटता है, आप वह नहीं हैं।
Shankaracharya meets an objection: if being in pain were really established in the Self, it would have to be the Self's permanent capacity. But one is in pain only through false identification, so the opponent's inference fails.