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 2.592
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्मात्सत्यमनन्तं यत्सर्वदाऽविकलेक्षणम् ।
तदस्मीति प्रबोधार्थं बहुस्यामिति कल्प्यते ॥ ५९२ ॥
tasmātsatyamanantaṃ yatsarvadā'vikalekṣaṇam |
tadasmīti prabodhārthaṃ bahusyāmiti kalpyate || 592 ||
English translation of verse 2.592:
Therefore, with a view to impart the knowledge, “I am that Brahman,” which is real, infinite, and eternally perfect consciousness, (the creation of the world, etc., as taught in) the śruti text, “May I become many,” are superimposed (on the Self).
Notes:
Śruti teaches that Brahman created the world and then entered into it, etc., with a view to enable the spiritual aspirant to attain the knowledge of Brahman-Ātman. Since Brahman is immutable, it is free from action, instruments of action, etc. It is, therefore, wrong to think that Brahman-Ātman is the agent of the creation of the world, the entry into it, etc., being in the real sense of the term.