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 2.714
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्राक्तु वाक्यार्थविज्ञानात्तन्निविष्टपदार्थयोः ।
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाख्यविवेकाय विधिर्भवेत् ॥ ७१४ ॥
prāktu vākyārthavijñānāttanniviṣṭapadārthayoḥ |
anvayavyatirekākhyavivekāya vidhirbhavet || 714 ||
English translation of verse 2.714:
Prior, however, to the attainment of the knowledge imparted by the sentence (such as tat tvam asi), there is the need for injunction for the purpose of reflecting, through the method of anvaya and vyatireka, on the meanings of the words contained in the sentence.
Notes:
This verse explains the scope of injunction in the Vedānta
There is the need for injunction before the rise of the unitary, nonrelational knowledge from the principal śruti text tat tvam asi. One must inquire into the meanings of the words tat and tvam contained In the text by the application of the method of agreement in presence and in absence (annaya-vyatireka). It is for the purpose of directing such an inquiry into the meanings of words that we have the śruti texts like “The Self, verily, must be seen,” which are in the injunctive form.