The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.26.18

6.26.18

evaṃ sata ātmano nityatvam asato dehāderanityatvaṃ coktamupasaṃharan enaṃ yuddhābhimukhaṃ karoti - antavanta iti | yadyapi ‘nāsato vidyate bhāvaḥ’ iti asatāṃ dehānāṃ kālatraye'pi sattvaṃ nāstīti paramārthadṛṣṭyā uktaṃ tathāpi tāṃ dṛṣṭimapratipadyamānasya narakādibhayamanurudhyamānasya vyavahārābhiprāyeṇa nityānityavibhāgamabhipretya dehānāmantavattvamucyata iti na doṣaḥ | nityatvaṃ kālāparicchedyatvaṃ tacca vyavahāre nabhaso'pyastītyata uktam anāśina iti | nāśaḥ adarśanaṃ tadvān hi ākāśaḥ ‘nabha ātmani līyate’ iti smṛteḥ | ayaṃ tu na tathetyanāśī | sarvadaiva prakāśamāna ityarthaḥ | etadapi na ghaṭādivaddṛśyatvenetyāha - aprameyasyeti | tathā ca śrutirātmano'prameyatvamāha ‘etadapramayaṃ dhruvam’ iti | apramayamityasyāprameyamityarthaḥ | etaccātmani pramāṇāprasarājjñeyam | tathā ca śrutiḥ “yenedaṃ sarvaṃ vijānāti taṃ kena vijānīyādvijñātāramare kena vijānīyāt” iti | prasiddhistvasya pratyagātmatvādeva | “yatsākṣādaparokṣādbrahma ya ātmā sarvāntaraḥ” iti śruteḥ | uktaṃ ca “pramāṇamapramāṇaṃ ca pramābhāsastathaiva ca | yatprasādātprasidhyanti tadasambhāvanā kutaḥ ||” iti | tasmādyudhyasva bhārata | bhīṣmādidehānāṃ mithyātvādanityatvācca svayameva naṣṭaprāyatayā hananānnivṛttyā tvayā svadharmo na nāśanīya iti bhāva ||