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 2.131
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
वस्तुतो देशतश्चैव कालतश्च त्रिधोच्यते ।
आनन्त्यं ब्रह्मणश्चातः सत्याद्यपि च सिद्ध्यति ॥ १३१ ॥
vastuto deśataścaiva kālataśca tridhocyate |
ānantyaṃ brahmaṇaścātaḥ satyādyapi ca siddhyati || 131 ||
English translation of verse 2.131:
The infinitude of Brahman is said to be threefold in respect of object, space, and time. And from this it is established that Brahman is real, etc.
Notes:
The objects of the world are subject to the threefold limitation—limitation by space, time, and object. Everyone of them exists at a particular time and place, and is also limited by other objects. But Brahman has no such limitation. It is, therefore, infinite.