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 2.440
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यातु साधारणी प्राप्तिरात्मत्वाद्ब्रह्मणः स्वतः ।
विदुषोऽविदुषो वाऽसावस्माभिर्न नियम्यते ॥ ४४० ॥
yātu sādhāraṇī prāptirātmatvādbrahmaṇaḥ svataḥ |
viduṣo'viduṣo vā'sāvasmābhirna niyamyate || 440 ||
English translation of verse 2.440:
But the common attainment (of Brahman as the Self of all) is not restricted by us, since Brahman by nature is the Self of the wise man as well as of the ignorant one.
Notes:
The second alternative which seeks to explain the attainment of Brahman as the Self of all, the wise as well as the ignorant, is quite acceptable. If the attainment of Brahman is interpreted in this sense, we do not wish to restrict it only to a man of knowledge. Since Brahman which is the inward Self of all is present in both a man of knowledge and an ignorant man, it is attained as such by both alike.