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 2.466
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निर्भयोऽपि स्वतोऽविद्वानेकं सन्तमनेकधा ।
प्रकल्प्याविद्याऽऽत्मानं तमेव भयमाप्नुयात् ॥ ४६६ ॥
nirbhayo'pi svato'vidvānekaṃ santamanekadhā |
prakalpyāvidyā''tmānaṃ tameva bhayamāpnuyāt || 466 ||
English translation of verse 2.466:
Though by his very nature he has no cause of fear, the ignorant man imagines the one existent Self as many through ignorance, and only because of Him (the Self whom he sees as different) attains fear.
Notes:
An ignorant man attains fear, that is, is caught up in the wheel of transmigratory existence since he looks upon the Self as different from Brahman.