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 2.598
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
द्रव्यादिविषये यानि प्रयुक्तानि प्रयोक्तृभिः ।
स्वार्थहेतोर्निवृत्त्यैव निवर्तन्ते वचांस्यतः ॥ ५९८ ॥
dravyādiviṣaye yāni prayuktāni prayoktṛbhiḥ |
svārthahetornivṛttyaiva nivartante vacāṃsyataḥ || 598 ||
English translation of verse 2.598:
We hold that the Self is Brahman itself which is devoid of the ideas of “I” and “mine”. Words which are employed by the speakers to refer to substance, etc., (in the world) return from Brahman only because of the absence therein of the factors which occasion the application of words.
Notes:
Though it is denied that Brahman can be expressed by words, it is nevertheless admitted that Brahman can be spoken of by implication (brahmaṇo'tra śabda-viṣayatvameva niṣidhyate, na tu lakṣaṇāviṣayatvam).