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 2.743
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
बोधेनेव निरस्तायां निद्रायां स्वप्नदर्शनम् ।
बुद्धात्मशेषतामेति तथेहैकलशेषताम् ॥ ७४३ ॥
bodheneva nirastāyāṃ nidrāyāṃ svapnadarśanam |
buddhātmaśeṣatāmeti tathehaikalaśeṣatām || 743 ||
English translation of verse 2.743:
When a person is awakened from sleep, the object seen by him in dream becomes part of the awakened person. In the same way, here (good and evil) remain part of the non-dual Self.
Notes:
When a person wakes up from sleep, he realizes that the dreamobjects seen by him are illusory and that they do not have any being apart from the Witness-self. In the same way when a person has attained the saving knowledge that he is no other than Brahman, he realizes that avidyā and its effects including dharma and adharma have no being of their own apart from the non-dual Self, and so they become powerless and harmless. He is no more tormented by them in the same way as the person who is awakened from sleep is not frightened by the dream-objects seen by him earlier.