Приписывается: Adi Shankara
«Brahman is real, the world is illusory; the individual soul is none other than brahman.»
Ложная атрибуция
Вердикт
Этого нет в трудах: Adi Shankara
It is the summary of Advaita most often quoted under Śaṅkara's name, but it does not appear in the authentic commentaries. The first half-line is in Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 20 (attributed); the full formula, with "jīvo brahmaiva nāparaḥ", circulates as a verse of the Brahmajñānāvalīmālā, another traditionally ascribed work. It is a school summary faithful in essence, not a quotation from the author of the bhāṣyas.
Что было сказано на самом деле
Подлинные слова: Adi Shankara
«It is a matter not requiring any proof that the object and the subject whose respective spheres are the notion of the 'Thou' (the Non-Ego) and the 'Ego', and which are opposed to each other as much as darkness and light are, cannot be identified.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya, prólogo sobre la superposición (adhyāsabhāṣya), frase inicial; trad. inglesa de Thibaut, SBE 34 (1890); versión española del investigador
«Superimposition is the apparent presentation, in the form of remembrance, to consciousness of something previously observed, in some other thing.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya, adhyāsabhāṣya (definición de adhyāsa); Thibaut, SBE 34
«For everybody is conscious of the existence of (his) Self, and never thinks 'I am not'.»
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya 1.1.1; Thibaut, SBE 34