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 2.137
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्मादित्यादिवाक्योक्तं वैशब्दः स्मरणाय तु ।
एतस्मादितिमन्त्रोक्तं सत्यादिगुणलक्षितम् ॥ १३७ ॥
tasmādityādivākyoktaṃ vaiśabdaḥ smaraṇāya tu |
etasmāditimantroktaṃ satyādiguṇalakṣitam || 137 ||
English translation of verse 2.137:
The word tasmāt refers to Brahman which has been stated in the text at the beginning. The word etasmāt refers to (the same) Brahman which is indirectly indicated by real, etc. as stated in the Mantra portion. The letter vai is used for the purpose of recollection.
Notes:
The meanings of the three words tasmāt (from that), etasmāt (from this), and vai (verily) are stated in this verse. The text recalls to our mind Brahman which has been first of all stated in the aphoristic text and which has been subsequently defined in the Mantra portion as real, knowledge, and infinite.