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 2.550
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
योऽसावेवंविदित्युक्तः परस्मात्किमसौ भवेत् ।
स्वतो भिन्नोऽथ वाऽभिन्नो यदि वोभयलक्षणः ॥ ५५० ॥
yo'sāvevaṃvidityuktaḥ parasmātkimasau bhavet |
svato bhinno'tha vā'bhinno yadi vobhayalakṣaṇaḥ || 550 ||
English translation of verse 2.550:
Is that person who has been spoken of as one “who knows thus” different by his very nature from the supreme Brahman? Or, is he non-different from it? Or is he both different and non-different from it?
Notes:
After commenting on the śruti passage saya evaṃvit... etamānandamayamātmānamupasaṅkrāmati, Śaṅkara begins an independent discussion whether non-duality or duality is the truth by focussing attention on the term evaṃvit, the person “who knows thus”. He says: “Now we have to discuss this point. Who is he that knows thus, and how does he attain (Brahman)? Is the attainer different from, or the same as, the supreme Self?”
Verses (550) to (594) deal with this discission initiated by Śaṅkara.