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 2.588
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स्फुरन्ती न जलूकाऽपि स्वात्मानं स्वात्मनाऽञ्जसा ।
उपसङ्क्रामतीत्यत्र निर्भागत्वात्तथाऽपि न ॥ ५८८ ॥
sphurantī na jalūkā'pi svātmānaṃ svātmanā'ñjasā |
upasaṅkrāmatītyatra nirbhāgatvāttathā'pi na || 588 ||
English translation of verse 2.588:
Even the well-known leech cannot literally attain itself by itself. (Even if we assume that a leech, being made of several parts, attains one of its parts by another part), here (in the case of the Self) it cannot be explained even in that way, because the Self is without parts.