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 2.619
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रमाणमप्रमाणं च प्रमाऽऽभासस्तथैव च ।
कुर्वन्त्येव प्रमां यत्र तदसम्भावना कुतः ॥ ६१९ ॥
pramāṇamapramāṇaṃ ca pramā''bhāsastathaiva ca |
kurvantyeva pramāṃ yatra tadasambhāvanā kutaḥ || 619 ||
English translation of verse 2.619:
How is the non-existence of Brahman tenable, since that (Brahman-consciousness) alone makes known pramāṇa as well as apramana, valid cognition as well as erroneous cognition?
Notes:
It should not be thought that Brahman which is not conveyed by the sentence-sense does not really exist. If we say that something is a pramāṇa and that something else is not a pramāṇa, it is because of the Witness-consciousness. Similarly we are able to distinguish a valid cognition (pramā) from an erroneous one (ābhāsa-jñāna) only through the Witness-consciousness. All of these bear testimony co the existence of Brahman-consciousness, for we know them only as witnessed by the Self, which is eternal consciousness (pramāṇādisādhakatvena nityadṛṣṭi-svabhāvasya brahmaṇaḥ siddhatvāt tadasambhāvanā nāsti).