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 1.59
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
संहिताविषयं ज्ञानमिहोपनिषदुच्यते ।
पञ्चाधिकरणां तां तु व्याख्यास्यामोऽधुना स्फुटम् ॥ ५९ ॥
saṃhitāviṣayaṃ jñānamihopaniṣaducyate |
pañcādhikaraṇāṃ tāṃ tu vyākhyāsyāmo'dhunā sphuṭam || 59 ||
English translation of verse 1.59:
Meditation on the factors of Saṃhitā is what is meant by Upaniṣad here. We shall now explain clearly the five objects of knowledge (to be meditated upon).
Notes:
The word Upaniṣad which occurs in the śruti text is used in the sense of upāsanā.
Just as one looks upon an image as Viṣṇu for the purpose of meditation, so also one has to look upon the different factors of the Saṃhitā as the deities that preside over them. It is the presiding deities (devatās) that are to be meditated upon and not the things which are mentioned as the five objects of knowledge.