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 2.402
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मूर्तामूर्तात्मकं कार्यं यत्सृष्ट्वा प्राविशत्प्रभुः ।
रजतं शुक्तिकैवात्मा तदात्मेवाभवन्मृषा ॥ ४०२ ॥
mūrtāmūrtātmakaṃ kāryaṃ yatsṛṣṭvā prāviśatprabhuḥ |
rajataṃ śuktikaivātmā tadātmevābhavanmṛṣā || 402 ||
English translation of verse 2.402:
Having created the world of effects comprising gross and subtle forms, the Lord entered into it. The Self illu- sorily became those forms in the same way as nacre illusorily becomes silver.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text tadanupraviśya sacca tyaccābhavat.
The five elements, viz., ether, air, fire, water, and earth of which the universe is constituted, may be divided into two groups—gross (mūrta) and subtle (amūrta). The creation of the two forms, gross and subtle, is due to avidyā. Brahman which is the cause appears in the two forms in the same way as a piece of shell appears in the form of silver. Just as a piece of shell does not really become silver, so also Brahman does not really assume the two forms, gross and subtle. In both cases, the one becoming another is an illusion.