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 2.445
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दृश्यान्वयि हि यद्वस्तु तदात्म्यमिति भण्यते ।
स्वतो ह्यस्यात्मदारिद्र्यादर्हार्थे लभते च यत् ॥ ४४५ ॥
dṛśyānvayi hi yadvastu tadātmyamiti bhaṇyate |
svato hyasyātmadāridryādarhārthe labhate ca yat || 445 ||
English translation of verse 2.445:
That characteristic which is commonly present in particular objects which are perceptible is, indeed, said to be the universal. Having no existence in itself, it comes to have existence (only through the particular) as conveyed by the suffix yat.
Notes:
With a view to explain the meaning of anātmya, the meaning of ātmya is first explained. Ātmya means the universal (sāmānyamātmyaśabdavācyam). The universal is what is uniformly present in the different particulars, as, for example, “cowness” in the different cows. The universal has no existence in itself. ft is revealed only through the particulars which it characterises.
Brahman is anātmya, because there is no universal or class characteristic in it (anātmyamiti niḥsāmānyam brahma).