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 2.96
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यत्तु तद्ब्रह्मणो ज्ञानं सर्वानन्यदविक्रियम् ।
ब्रह्मणोऽव्यतिरिक्तं तत्सर्वप्रत्यक्समाप्तितः ॥ ९६ ॥
yattu tadbrahmaṇo jñānaṃ sarvānanyadavikriyam |
brahmaṇo'vyatiriktaṃ tatsarvapratyaksamāptitaḥ || 96 ||
English translation of verse 2.96:
But as to Brahman’s consciousness which is not different from Brahman, which is non-different from all, and which is immutable, it is the inward Self of all.
Notes:
Brahman cannot be denoted even by the word jñāna.
We use the expression “consciousness of Brahman” (brahmaṇo jñānam) quite frequently. It does not mean that Brahman is different from consciousness. It must be understood as in the case of “the light of the sun” or “the heat of the fire.”