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...
Verse 1.44
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
परोक्ष्येण नमस्कृत्य प्रत्यक्षेण नमस्क्रिया ।
परोक्षसाक्षाद्रूपाभ्यां वायुरेवाभिधीयते ॥ ४४ ॥
parokṣyeṇa namaskṛtya pratyakṣeṇa namaskriyā |
parokṣasākṣādrūpābhyāṃ vāyurevābhidhīyate || 44 ||
English translation of verse 1.44:
After saluting it mediately, it is saluted directly. Vāyu alone is referred to both mediately and immediately.
Notes:
In the śruti text, “namo brahmaṇe,” salutation is first of all offered to Brahman in the form of Vāyu mediately. It is then directly saluted as Vāyu as shown in the text, “namaste vāyo,” since it is immediate to us (pratyakṣatvāt).