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 2.664
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निर्धूताशेषभेदोऽयमवाक्यार्थात्मकस्तथा ।
सुषुप्ते गम्यतेऽस्माभिर्नानृतं श्रुतिगौरवात् ॥ ६६४ ॥
nirdhūtāśeṣabhedo'yamavākyārthātmakastathā |
suṣupte gamyate'smābhirnānṛtaṃ śrutigauravāt || 664 ||
English translation of verse 2.664:
Further, the Self, which is free from all difference and which does not form the direct import of a sentence, is experienced by us in deep sleep. (And this experience) is not an illusion, because it is supported by the authority of śruti.
Notes:
Since everyone experiences the Witness-self in deep sleep, there is no need of “another knowledge” referred to by the opponent. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka text (IV, iii, 23) speaks about the Witness-self in the state of deep sleep as follows: “That it does not see in that state (of deep sleep) is because, although seeing then, it does not see, for the vision of the witness can never be lost, because it is immortal.” One cannot, therefore, dismiss the experience of the Witness-self in the state of deep sleep as an illusion.