4- ‘दशमस्त्वमसि’ [ दसवें तुम्हीं हो! ]
दस जवान किसी समय दूसरे गाँव जा रहे थे। रास्तेमें एक बड़ी नदी आयी। सब तैरना जानते थे, अतः नदीमें उतर पड़े और तैरकर पार हो गये। जब उन्होंने अपनी गिनती की तो संख्या नौ आयी। इससे एक साथी नदीमें डूब गया, यह मानकर सब शोकसे रोने लगे। इतनेमें कोई यात्री उस रास्तेसे निकला, उसने उनको रोते देखकर कारण पूछा। उन्होंने बताया कि ‘हम दस थे, अब नौ ही रह गये, एक डूब गया, इससे रो रहे हैं।’ वस्तुतः कोई डूबा नहीं था, प्रत्येक गिननेवाला अपनेको भूलकर नौको ही गिनता था । यात्रीने बात समझ ली और युक्तिके साथ उन्हें समझाकर विश्वास करवा दिया कि वे दसके दस ही थे, कोई भी डूबकर नहीं मरा था।
यहाँ जैसे इन जवानोंको दस होनेपर भी नौ होनेका भ्रम हो गया था, वैसे ही आत्माको भी स्वयं नित्यमुक्त और निर्विकार होनेपर भी जन्म-मरणरूप जीवत्वका भ्रम हो जाता है और वहाँ जैसे भ्रमकी निवृत्ति होते ही दसवें मनुष्यकी प्राप्ति हो जाती है, वैसे ही आत्माको भी भ्रमकी निवृत्ति होते ही अपने स्वरूपकी प्राप्ति हो जाती है
4- ‘Dasmastvamasi’ [You are the tenth! ,
Ten young men were going to another village at some point. A big river came on the way. Everyone knew how to swim, so they got into the river and swam across. When he counted himself, the number came to nine. Due to this, a friend drowned in the river, everyone started crying in grief. In the meantime, some passenger came out of that way, seeing her crying, he asked the reason. He told that ‘we were ten, now only nine are left, one drowned, we are crying because of it’. In fact, no one was drowned, every count forgot himself and counted only nine. The traveler understood the matter and persuaded them with tact that they were only ten out of ten, no one had died by drowning.
Here, just as these soldiers had the illusion of being nine even though they were ten, similarly the soul itself, being eternally free and free from vices, gets the illusion of existence in the form of birth and death and there, as soon as the illusion is retired, the tenth man is attained, similarly the soul too As soon as illusion is removed, one attains its own form.
