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 2.530
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
क्षेत्रज्ञेश्वरभेदेन ह्यभिन्नं वस्त्वविद्यया ।
तस्मात्तद्धानतश्चैक्यं घटेतरखयोरिव ॥ ५३० ॥
kṣetrajñeśvarabhedena hyabhinnaṃ vastvavidyayā |
tasmāttaddhānataścaikyaṃ ghaṭetarakhayoriva || 530 ||
English translation of verse 2.530:
Since the non-dual reality appears, through avidyā, in the different forms of kṣetrajña and Īśvara, by removing it (we must realize their) oneness like the oneness of the ether enclosed in a pot and the ether outside it.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text sa ekaḥ. Though the ultimate reality is one, it appears in the two distinct forms of jīva and Īśvara due to avidyā, in the same way as the ether which is one appears in two distinct forms as ghaṭākāśa, the ether within a pot, and mahākāśa, the vast ether outside it, due to the limiting adjunct, viz., the pot. Just as the removal of the limiting adjunct helps us to realize that the ghaṭākāśa and the mahākāśa are one, even so the removal of the upādhi of avidyā will help us to realize that the jīva and Īśvara are one.