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 2.529
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रध्वस्तास्मद्विभागश्च रोचिष्णुर्यश्च भास्करे ।
सूर्य आत्मेति मन्त्रोऽपि योऽसाविति च साक्ष्यथ ॥ ५२९ ॥
pradhvastāsmadvibhāgaśca rociṣṇuryaśca bhāskare |
sūrya ātmeti mantro'pi yo'sāviti ca sākṣyatha || 529 ||
English translation of verse 2.529:
The śruti text, “That one who is in the sun,” refers (by implication) to Brahman who shines brightest in the sun and is devoid of separation from us. (In justification of this) there is the śruti text, “The Sun is the Ātman.”
Notes:
The śruti text yaścāsāvāditye signifies by implication Brahman, which is implied by the term tat. The śruti text quoted in the second line of the verse is from the Taittirīya-saṃhitā, II, iv, 14.