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 1.131
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उपलक्षणमेतत्स्याद्देवतालोकपाङ्क्तयोः ।
अधिभूतमिति वक्ष्यामोऽथाध्यात्ममतः परम् ॥ १३१ ॥
upalakṣaṇametatsyāddevatālokapāṅktayoḥ |
adhibhūtamiti vakṣyāmo'thādhyātmamataḥ param || 131 ||
English translation of verse 1.131:
The expression adhibhūta [adhibhūtam] is used to imply the group of five deities and the group of five worlds as well. Then in the subsequent portion we shall explain (the three groups of five each) with regard to the self.
Notes:
The three groups of five each mentioned earlier relate to external things comprehended by the notion "this” (idam). The three groups of five objects beginning with prāṇa mentioned in the next verse are internal; and they are comprehended by the notion “I” (aham). They relate to the aggregate of the physical body and the senses popularly known as the self, and hence the expression adhyātman.