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 3.12
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उत्पत्तिस्थितिनाशेषु ब्रह्मादिस्थावरावधि ।
नात्येति ब्रह्मरूपं यत्तद्ब्रह्मेति प्रतीयताम् ॥ १२ ॥
utpattisthitināśeṣu brahmādisthāvarāvadhi |
nātyeti brahmarūpaṃ yattadbrahmeti pratīyatām || 12 ||
English translation of verse 3.12:
That must be known to be Brahman leaving which none, from Brahmā down to the unmoving objects, can exist at the time of creation, maintenance, and destruction.
Notes:
Immediately after mentioning annam, prāṇam, etc., Varuṇa gives a definition of Brahman. Brahman is that from which all beings are born: having been born, it is that by which they live; and it is that into which they are finally dissolved. In short, Brahman is the cause of the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the world. Brahman is defined here not in terms of its essential nature, but in terms of its accidental attributes (taṭastha-lakṣaṇa [lakṣaṇam]). Origination, etc., belong to the universe. Brahman is said to be the cause of the universe due to its accidental connection with the origination, etc., of the universe.