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 2.392
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अब्रह्मत्वनिवृत्त्यर्थं ब्रह्मात्मैति विशेषणम् ।
तन्निवृत्ताववाक्यार्थं कैवल्यं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ ३९२ ॥
abrahmatvanivṛttyarthaṃ brahmātmaiti viśeṣaṇam |
tannivṛttāvavākyārthaṃ kaivalyaṃ pratipadyate || 392 ||
English translation of verse 2.392:
With a view to remove the notion that the Self is other than Brahman, the Self is qualified by Brahman (in the śruti text “This Self is Brahman”). When each is thus freed (from the wrong notion), the non-verbal knowledge which is liberation is attained.
Notes:
While the śruti text yo veda nihitaṃ guhāyām removes the wrong notion that Brahman is different from Ātman, the Māṇḍūkya text (II) “This Self is Brahman,” (ayamātmā brahma) removes the wrong notion that Ātman is different from Brahman (ātmano'brahmatvam), inasmuch as the word Ātman is qualified by the word Brahman. When a person realizes the non-difference of Brahman and Ātman, he attains liberation.