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 2.744
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अथवा एष एवोभे सत्यादृश्यादिलक्षणः ।
शुभाशुभे यतस्तस्मादात्मानं बलयत्ययम् ॥ ७४४ ॥
athavā eṣa evobhe satyādṛśyādilakṣaṇaḥ |
śubhāśubhe yatastasmādātmānaṃ balayatyayam || 744 ||
English translation of verse 2.744:
Or, since the wise man who has become the real, imperceptible Brahman treats these good and evil (as identical with the Self), he strengthens the Self.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text ubhe hyevaiṣa ete ātmānaṃ spṛṇute. To the wise man, good and evil lose their individual forms, because he regards them as identical with the Self. So they cannot torment him any more.