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 2.748
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
इतीत्युक्तपरामर्शो ब्रह्मणोऽद्वयरूपिणः ।
साक्षात्तद्बोधहेतुत्वाद्वल्ली ह्युपनिषद्भवेत् ॥ ७४८ ॥
itītyuktaparāmarśo brahmaṇo'dvayarūpiṇaḥ |
sākṣāttadbodhahetutvādvallī hyupaniṣadbhavet || 748 ||
English translation of verse 2.748:
The word iti is for recalling the non-dual Brahman. This Vallī is, indeed, the Upaniṣad, because it directly imparts the knowledge of that Brahman.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text ityupaniṣat, which occurs at the end of the concluding anuvāka of the Brahmavallī.
The word iti is used to recall what has been said about the nondual Brahman in this chapter beginning from brahmavidāpnoti param and eliding with ya evaṃ veda. This chapter called the Brahmavallī is spoken of as the Upaniṣad by courtesy as it conveys the knowledge of Brahman-Ātman, which is the quintessence of the teachings of the Upaniṣad.