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 2.329
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
न चात्मना स्वात्मानमुपसङ्क्रामतीश्वरः ।
नालं स्वस्कन्धमारोढुं निपुणोऽपीह साधकः ॥ ३२९ ॥
na cātmanā svātmānamupasaṅkrāmatīśvaraḥ |
nālaṃ svaskandhamāroḍhuṃ nipuṇo'pīha sādhakaḥ || 329 ||
English translation of verse 2.329:
Īśvara never passes into His own Self by Himself. No adept, however clever, is competent to mount upon his own shoulder.
Notes:
The idea which is conveyed by these examples is that one can never transcend or attain one’s Self (svenaiva svasyātikramo vā prāptirvā na sambhavati).