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 2.175
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
परात्मनोऽप्यनन्तस्य क्षेत्रज्ञत्वमविद्यया ।
क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धीत्येवं सत्युपपद्यते ॥ १७५ ॥
parātmano'pyanantasya kṣetrajñatvamavidyayā |
kṣetrajñaṃ cāpi māṃ viddhītyevaṃ satyupapadyate || 175 ||
English translation of verse 2.175:
The supreme Self, though it is infinite, attains the status of the kṣetrajña, the knower of the body, by means of avidyā. Only, thus, the declaration (of Kṛṣṇa), “Know me also as the kṣetrajña,” is tenable.
Notes:
Brahman-Ātman which transcends the cause-effect relation is infinite. The Self in the body is called the kṣetrajña. It is the semblance of the supreme consciousness (caitanya-ābhāsa). Though in truth it is no other than the supreme Brahman-Ātman, it appears to be a finite self enclosed by the body due to avidyā. It is this idea that is conveyed by the Gītā text (XIII, 2) quoted in the verse.