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 2.235
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अस्मद्विभागे पञ्चास्य यथैवान्नमयादयः ।
तथा तत्प्रत्यगात्मानो युष्मदन्नादयः स्मृताः ॥ २३५ ॥
asmadvibhāge pañcāsya yathaivānnamayādayaḥ |
tathā tatpratyagātmāno yuṣmadannādayaḥ smṛtāḥ || 235 ||
English translation of verse 2.235:
Just as there are five sheaths such as the annamaya in the "I” or the subject division of the inward Self, so also there are (five sheaths) like the anna, etc., (as the causes of the former five sheaths) in the “Thou” or the object division of the inward Self.
Notes:
The non-dual Self is divided as it were into two divisions—the subject or the “I” division (asmadvibhāga) and the object or the “Thou” division (yuṣmadvibhāga). The former which has for its content the notion of “I” (aham-buddhi-grāhya) consists of five sheaths—the sheath of food (annamaya), the sheath of vitality (prāṇamaya), the sheath of consciousness (manomaya), the sheath of self-consciousness (vijñānamaya) and the sheath of bliss (ānandamaya). The other division which has for its content the notion of "Thou”, that is, any object which is referred to as "this” as distinguished from "I” (yuṣmadidam-buddhi-grāhya) also consists of five sheaths of food, vitality, consciousness, self-consciousness, and bliss. The first list of five sheaths mentioned above is from the individual standpoint (vyaṣṭi), while the second list of five sheaths is from the cosmic standpoint (samaṣṭi). Each sheath in the first list is a modification (mayaṭ) of its counterpart in the second list. For example, the annamaya-kośa at the individual level is a modification of the anna-kośa at the cosmic level: that is to say, while the former is the effect, the latter is the cause (prakṛti). The relation among the remaining sheaths must be explained in the same way. So there are ten sheaths—five at the individual level and five at the cosmic level.
Since food, vitality, etc., at the cosmic level serve as the cause of the five sheaths at the individual level, they are also referred to as sheaths (kośa-upādānatvāt annādīnāmapi kośatva-vyavahāraḥ).