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 2.534
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नाऽऽदित्यस्थस्तदोत्कर्षो नापकृष्टिस्तथाऽऽत्मनि ।
हित्वोभयमवाक्यार्थं नेति नेतीति विन्दते ॥ ५३४ ॥
nā''dityasthastadotkarṣo nāpakṛṣṭistathā''tmani |
hitvobhayamavākyārthaṃ neti netīti vindate || 534 ||
English translation of verse 2.534:
In that case, there is no superiority in the sun. In the same way, there is no inferiority in the jīva. By abandoning both as “not this, not this,” one attains (the pure consciousness) which is the non-verbal sense of the sentence.
Notes:
Brahman-Ātman, the pure consciousness, is the implied sense of the texts sa yaścāyaṃ puruṣe, yaścāsāvāditye. One must get at this implied or non-verbal sense (avākyārtham) by negating the adjunct-based differences caused by avidyā.