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 2.463
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अविद्यया तदोद्धृत्य रज्ज्वा रज्जुमिव स्वयम् ।
अहित्वेनाद्वयाद्बोधात्कुरुते कर्तृभोक्तृभिः ॥ ४६३ ॥
avidyayā tadoddhṛtya rajjvā rajjumiva svayam |
ahitvenādvayādbodhātkurute kartṛbhoktṛbhiḥ || 463 ||
English translation of verse 2.463:
Just as a rope makes itself a serpent through avidyā, even so the jīva, separating, then, from the non-dual consciousness (which is Brahman) through avidyā, makes himself an agent and an enjoyer.
Notes:
This verse explains the result that follows consequent on the work of avidyā. Though the jīva in his essential nature is identical with Brahman which is non-dual and eternal consciousness, he thinks, due to avidyā, that he is different from Brahman and considers himself an agent and an enjoyer.