Upadeśasāhasrī / 2. Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध)
2. Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध)
Summary
Prakaraṇa (प्रकरण) 2 is the negation. What remains to be said of the self is not this, not this. The negation removes a false overlay. It is not a list of properties the self happens to lack.
नेपालीमा
प्रकरण २ निषेध हो। आत्माका बारेमा भन्न बाँकी कुरा नेति नेति हो, यो होइन, यो होइन। निषेधले झुटो लेप हटाउँछ। यो आत्मामा संयोगले नभएका गुणहरूको सूची होइन।
What remains is neti neti (नेति नेति), not this, not this.
4 of 4 lines in this chapter are written out word by word.
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| 2.1 | प्रतिषेद्धुमशक्यत्वान् नेति नेतीति शेषितम् । इदं नाहमिदं नाहमित्यद्धा प्रतिपद्यते pratiṣeddhum aśakyatvān neti netīti śeṣitam / idaṃ nāham idaṃ nāham ity addhā pratipadyate Because the self cannot be negated, what is left is 'not this, not this.' One understands, for certain, 'I am not this, I am not this.' |
| 2.2 | इदंधीरिदमात्मोत्था वाचारम्भणगोचरा । निषिद्धात्मोद्भवत्वात् सा न पुनर् मानतां व्रजेत् idaṃdhīr idamātmotthā vācārambhaṇagocarā / niṣiddhātmodbhavatvāt sā na punar mānatāṃ vrajet The 'this'-thought, risen from taking the self to be a this, has speech-modification as its range. Because its arising as the self has been negated, it should not become a means of knowing again. |
| 2.3 | पूर्वबुद्धिमबाधित्वा नोत्तरा जायते मतिः । दृशिरेकः स्वयंसिद्धः फलत्वात् स न बाध्यते pūrvabuddhim abādhitvā nottarā jāyate matiḥ / dṛśir ekaḥ svayaṃsiddhaḥ phalatvāt sa na bādhyate A later notion does not arise without having sublated the earlier one. The seer is one, and established by himself. He is not sublated, because a cognition is a fruit. |
| 2.4 | इदंवनमतिक्रम्य शोकमोहादिदूषितम् । वनाद् गान्धारको यद्वत् स्वमात्मानं प्रपद्यते idaṃvanam atikramya śokamohādidūṣitam / vanād gāndhārako yadvat svam ātmānaṃ prapadyate Having crossed the forest of 'this,' which is spoiled by grief, delusion, and the rest, one reaches one's own self, as the man of Gandhāra (गन्धार) reaches home from the forest. |