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 2.359
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्यैष एव शारीरो योऽशरीरः सदेकलः ।
आनन्दान्तस्य पूर्वस्य ह्यात्माऽनात्मवतः परः ॥ ३५९ ॥
tasyaiṣa eva śārīro yo'śarīraḥ sadekalaḥ |
ānandāntasya pūrvasya hyātmā'nātmavataḥ paraḥ || 359 ||
English translation of verse 2.359:
That one which has no body, which is existent and non-dual, is the embodied Self, indeed, of all the preceding sheaths ending with the sheath of bliss. There is no other Self than this.
Notes:
The śruti text tasyaiṣa eva śārīra ātmā which occurs in this anuvāka must be explained in the same way as it was explained earlier. The non-dual Brahman-Ātman alone is the Self, in the real sense of the term, of all the sheaths including the ānandamaya. See verses (284) and (285).