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 2.374
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
व्याकृतिर्या तयोर्विष्णोः प्रत्यहं नामरूपयोः ।
भूयो भवनमेतत्स्यान्मायिनोऽनेकता यथा ॥ ३७४ ॥
vyākṛtiryā tayorviṣṇoḥ pratyahaṃ nāmarūpayoḥ |
bhūyo bhavanametatsyānmāyino'nekatā yathā || 374 ||
English translation of verse 2.374:
The daily differentiation of names and forms from out of Viṣṇu must be understood as the manifold forms (of Brahman) like the manifold forms of a magician.
Notes:
The evolution of name and form (nāmarūpa-vyākaraṇa [vyākaraṇam]) is the appearance of Brahman as many. See the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (I, iv, 7): “This universe was then undifferentiated. It differentiated only into name and form—it was called such and such and was of such and such form.”
The word viṣṇu which occurs in the verse means the all-pervasive Brahman.