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 2.493
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आविष्करिष्यन्त्याहात इममर्थं श्रुतिः स्वयम् ।
बहिष्प्रवणदृष्टीनां स्वतोऽसामर्थ्यदर्शनात् ॥ ४९३ ॥
āviṣkariṣyantyāhāta imamarthaṃ śrutiḥ svayam |
bahiṣpravaṇadṛṣṭīnāṃ svato'sāmarthyadarśanāt || 493 ||
English translation of verse 2.493:
Therefore, śruti itself with a view to explain speaks about this idea, since those whose vision is directed outwards arc unable to understand it by themselves.
Notes:
Since the limited, surpassable bliss serves as the means to our understanding the infinite, unsurpassable Brahman-bliss, śruti itself in the passage yuvā syāt, etc., proceeds to give an account of it in its different gradations starting from the happiness of man.
It is true that Brahman-bliss is self-luminous (svaprakāśa) by its very nature, and does not therefore require any means for knowing it. But those who are drawn towards, and engrossed in, external objects are not able to understand its real nature. It is for their benefit that śruti proceeds to set forth the nature of Brahman-bliss starting with an inquiry into the nature of worldly happiness.