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 2.120
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ज्ञातुर्हार्दगुहान्तस्थं प्रतीचोऽन्यन्न लभ्यते ।
सत्यादिमदतो ब्रह्म प्रत्यगात्मैव तद्विदः ॥ १२० ॥
jñāturhārdaguhāntasthaṃ pratīco'nyanna labhyate |
satyādimadato brahma pratyagātmaiva tadvidaḥ || 120 ||
English translation of verse 2.120:
The knower does not attain anything other than the Self which is in the intellect, lodged in the heart. So, to one who knows it. Brahman which is real, etc., is only the inward Self.
Notes:
The Self, it is well-known, is within the intellect. Śruti says that Brahman is located in the intellect. It follows, therefore, that Brahman which is defined as real, knowledge, and infinite is no other than the Self of the knower.