The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 206

p. 206

अथोच्यते—ब्रह्मणो नानात्वं नास्माभिरभ्युपगम्यते, अपि तु जीवपरयोर्भेदोऽभ्युपगम्यते इति ।तत्रापि महान् दोषो विनाशः प्राप्नोति ।श्रूयते च, ‘यदा ह्येवैष एतस्मिन्नुदरमन्तरं कुरुते ।अथ तस्य भयं भवति’ ‘मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति’ ‘अथ योऽन्यां देवतामुपास्ते

In plain words

Someone objects: we never said Brahman is many — we only said the individual self and the supreme Self are two different things. But that position carries the same grave flaw: it ends in the self being destructible. And scripture says so: "The moment he opens the smallest gap in this, fear comes to him." "From death to death goes the one who sees manyness here." "And whoever worships some other deity..."

Close to the Sanskrit

Now it is said: manifoldness of Brahman is not admitted by us; but rather difference between the individual self and the supreme is admitted — thus. There too a great fault, destruction, results. And it is heard: 'For the moment this one makes a hollow, a gap, in this, then fear arises for him'; 'From death he reaches death, who here sees as though many'; 'Now he who worships another deity...'