[Advaita-l] Fwd: Looking for reference of a shloka

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:

> The following shloka is cited by Shankaracharya in the Prose section of the
> Upadesha saahasri as:
>
> तथाचोक्तम् -
>
> रूपसंस्कारतुल्याधी रागद्वेषौ भयं च यत्।
> गृह्यते धीश्रयं तस्माज् ज्ञाता शुद्धोऽभयः सदा॥
>
> This shloka also appears in the 15th chapter of the metrical part of the
> same text.
>
> One is curious about the text Shankara is citing this verse from.  Any help
> is welcome.
>

It is strange that none of the commentators have spoken about this
I don't think "tad uktam" necessarily must refer to a different text. 
Perhaps Shankaracharya is simply refering to the metrical part of the same 
text and he himself composed the shloka as a karika?

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>