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 2.36
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दशमोऽस्मीत्यतो ज्ञानादज्ञानध्वस्तिवर्त्मना ।
दशमाप्तिवदाप्तिः स्याद् ब्रह्मणोऽज्ञानहानतः ॥ ३६ ॥
daśamo'smītyato jñānādajñānadhvastivartmanā |
daśamāptivadāptiḥ syād brahmaṇo'jñānahānataḥ || 36 ||
English translation of verse 2.36:
Just as from the knowledge that “I am the tenth,” the tenth man is attained through the destruction of ignorance, so also there is the attainment of Brahman through the destruction of ignorance.
Notes:
The non-attainment of Brahman is due to ignorance, and its attainment is by means of knowledge.