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 2.401
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अप्रविष्टस्वभावस्य प्रवेशस्तेन कल्प्यते ।
क्षेत्रज्ञेश्वरहानेन ह्यैकात्म्यं स्यात्कथं त्विति ॥ ४०१ ॥
apraviṣṭasvabhāvasya praveśastena kalpyate |
kṣetrajñeśvarahānena hyaikātmyaṃ syātkathaṃ tviti || 401 ||
English translation of verse 2.401:
The entry of one who by nature cannot have entered (into the universe) is stated in such a way as if it has entered with a view to teach the oneness of the Self and Īśvara by discarding the distinction between them.
Notes:
Brahman is free from transmigratory existence. Since the jīva is non-different from Brahman, its bondage is not real, but illusory. Liberation consists in realizing the oneness of Brahman and Ātman. Śruti speaks as if Brahman has entered into the universe with a view to impart this knowledge of oneness by removing the distinction between the kṣetrajña and Īśvara.