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 2.454
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
न नञर्थो विकल्पो वा परमार्थमकल्पितम् ।
असम्प्रविश्य संसिद्धिं लभते क्वचिदन्यतः ॥ ४५४ ॥
na nañartho vikalpo vā paramārthamakalpitam |
asampraviśya saṃsiddhiṃ labhate kvacidanyataḥ || 454 ||
English translation of verse 2.454:
Neither negation nor an illusory appearance can be thought of anywhere without relation to Brahman, the absolute, the real.
Notes:
There is no illusion without a substratum. In the absence of a rope which serves as the substratum, the illusory appearance of a snake does not take place. The snake which is illusory has no being of its own apart from the substratum on which it is super-imposed (kalpitasya adhiṣṭhānameva svarupam). Negation, too, implies an object from which a thing is negated. We have to say that a horse is not in a cow, or that a pot is not on the ground. The denial of the world of plurality implies the Self from which it is negated, in the same way as the illusory appearance of the world implies this Self as the substratum for the appearance of the world-illusion. Brahman-Ātman alone is real.