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 2.112
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सत्याद्यर्थविरुद्धेभ्यः सम्यग्व्यावृत्तधीर्यतिः ।
धियः प्रत्यक्प्रविश्याथ सत्यात्मानं प्रपश्यति ॥ ११२ ॥
satyādyarthaviruddhebhyaḥ samyagvyāvṛttadhīryatiḥ |
dhiyaḥ pratyakpraviśyātha satyātmānaṃ prapaśyati || 112 ||
English translation of verse 2.112:
The ascetic whose mind is completely turned away from what is opposed to the real, etc., by (first) going inward to the mind, realizes, then, the Self which is real.
Notes:
The ascetic who fulfils the conditions of eligibility for Brahmanknowledge turns away from things which are unreal, insentient, and finite. At first he conceives Brahman as the cause of everything. Then he understands that the entire world of diversity which is illusory has no real existence apart from Brahman which is the cause. Causeeffect relation holds good only from the relative, empirical standpoint. Seeing that Brahman which is said to be the cause is non-different from Brahman which transcends the cause-effect relation, he concludes that the Witness-consciousness which is inward to the intellect and which illumines the presence as well as the absence of the intellect, is no other than Brahman which is real, consciousness, and infinite.