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 2.477
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्यदेव हि तद्वेद्यादवेद्यादन्यदेव तत् ।
वेद्यवेत्तृद्वयाच्चान्यदिति श्रुत्यनुशासनम् ॥ ४७७ ॥
anyadeva hi tadvedyādavedyādanyadeva tat |
vedyavettṛdvayāccānyaditi śrutyanuśāsanam || 477 ||
English translation of verse 2.477:
The instruction of śruti is that Brahman is surely different from what is known, that it is different from what is not known, and that it is different from both the known and the knower.
Notes:
The meaning intended to be conveyed by the text from the Kena Upaniṣad (I, 4) referred to above is brought out in this verse.