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 2.468
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ईशितव्याद्विभक्तो मद्यस्मादीशो भयङ्करः ।
इति कल्पयतस्तस्मादभयं जायते भयम् ॥ ४६८ ॥
īśitavyādvibhakto madyasmādīśo bhayaṅkaraḥ |
iti kalpayatastasmādabhayaṃ jāyate bhayam || 468 ||
English translation of verse 2.468:
Inasmuch as he imagines that the Lord, being different from him who is ruled, is the source of fear, from Brahman in whom there is nothing to cause fear arises fear.
Notes:
The all-pervasive Brahman is non-different from the inward Self of every being. Thinking that Brahman is different from his inward Self, if an ignorant man looks upon it as God, the Lord of the world, and considers himself as a worldly creature different from, and controlled by, Him, that very Brahman which is abhayam becomes a source of fear to him. The idea is that the perception of difference where there is no difference is the cause of fear.