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Upadeshasahasri 19.14

19.14 Shankaracharya

असद्द्वयं तेऽपि हि यद्यदीक्ष्यते न दृष्टमित्येव न चैव नास्तिता । यतः प्रवृत्ता सदसद्विकल्पना विचारवच्चापि तथाद्वयं च सत् ॥

asaddvayaṃ te'pi hi yadyadīkṣyate na dṛṣṭamityeva na caiva nāstitā | yataḥ pravṛttā sadasadvikalpanā vicāravaccāpi tathādvayaṃ ca sat ||

For you too, whatever is seen as duality is unreal; yet merely because [the Self] is not seen, it is not non-existent. That from which the imagining of 'is' and 'is not' proceeds, as inquiry itself does, is the non-dual, and it is real.

तुम्हारे लिए भी जो-जो द्वैत दिखता है वह असत् है; पर केवल इसलिए कि (आत्मा) दिखता नहीं, वह असत् नहीं हो जाता। जिससे 'है' और 'नहीं है' की कल्पना चलती है, जैसे विचार भी, वह अद्वय ही सत् है।

Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ

You cannot see awareness the way you see a table, but that is because it is what does the seeing, not because it is absent.

चेतना को आप मेज़ की तरह नहीं देख सकते, पर इसलिए नहीं कि वह नहीं है; वह स्वयं देखने वाली है।

The Self continues the argument: whatever is seen as duality is unreal, but the fact that the Self is not seen as an object does not make it non-existent.

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