Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika

by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114

The English translation of Sureshvara’s Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara’s Bhashya on the Taittiriya Upanishad. Taittiriya Vartika contains a further explanation of the words of Shankara-Acharya, the famous commentator who wrote many texts belonging to Advaita-Vedanta. Sureshvaracharya was his direct disciple and lived in the 9...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

विद्यासंशीलिनां यस्माद् गर्भजन्माद्यशेषतः ।
उपमृद्नाति विद्येयं तस्मादुपनिषद् भवेत् ॥ ३५ ॥

vidyāsaṃśīlināṃ yasmād garbhajanmādyaśeṣataḥ |
upamṛdnāti vidyeyaṃ tasmādupaniṣad bhavet || 35 ||

English translation of verse 1.35:

Since this knowledge (of the Self) destroys birth, etc., completely for those who have attained it, it is called Upaniṣad.

Notes:

Following Śaṅkara, Sureśvara explains the meaning of the word Upaniṣad in this verse as well as in the next one.

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