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 2.134
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कालाकाशादियोनित्वात्सर्वात्मत्वात्तथाऽऽत्मनः ।
वस्त्वन्तरस्य चासत्त्वान्मुख्यानन्त्यं परात्मनः ॥ १३४ ॥
kālākāśādiyonitvātsarvātmatvāttathā''tmanaḥ |
vastvantarasya cāsattvānmukhyānantyaṃ parātmanaḥ || 134 ||
English translation of verse 2.134:
The supreme Self is infinite in the real sense, because it is the cause of time, ether, etc., because it is the Self of all, and also because there is no other object besides the Self.
Notes:
(1) Brahman is not an effect or a created thing, and so it is not limited by time. (2) Ākāśa is unlimited in space. Being the cause of ākāśa, Brahman is infinite in space. (3) Since it is the cause of time, ether, etc., it is the Self of all. And if it is the Self of all, there cannot be any object different from it. It is not, therefore, limited by object. Since Brahman is not limited in all the three respects, it alone is infinite in the real sense of the term.
The two words ātman and paramātman have been used in the verse with reference to one and the same thing for the purpose of emphasizing their non-difference.