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 2.157
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सत्यं ज्ञानमनन्तं यत्प्रत्यज्ञायि पुरैकलम् ।
अनन्यानुभवं ब्रह्म तत्सिद्धं न्यायतः स्फुटम् ॥ १५७ ॥
satyaṃ jñānamanantaṃ yatpratyajñāyi puraikalam |
ananyānubhavaṃ brahma tatsiddhaṃ nyāyataḥ sphuṭam || 157 ||
English translation of verse 2.157:
Brahman which was declared earlier as real, knowledge, and infinite, as one and self-luminous, is clearly established through reasoning.
Notes:
Brahman is the only thing which is absolutely real. It is the cause of the world in the sense that it is the substratum on which the entire world is superimposed. So the world is illusory. The reasoning employed in the ārambhaṇādhikaraṇa of the Brahmasūtra, II, i, 14-20, establishes conclusively that the world is non-different from Brahman and that it does not exist apart from Brahman. So the truth is that Brahman alone is—Brahman, the one without a second.