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 3.69
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यत्र त्वस्येति विध्वस्तसर्वाविद्यादिलक्षणे ।
निषेधति सदाऽविद्याध्यस्तं द्वैतमिहात्मनि ॥ ६९ ॥
yatra tvasyeti vidhvastasarvāvidyādilakṣaṇe |
niṣedhati sadā'vidyādhyastaṃ dvaitamihātmani || 69 ||
English translation of verse 3.69:
The śruti text “Where, verily, every thing has become the Self” always denies duality, set up by avidyā, in the Self which is free from the entire avidyā, etc.
Notes:
The Bṛhadāraṇyaka text (II, iv, i4) quoted in the first line of the verse clearly shows that one cannot think of any duality in the Self in the absence of avidyā. It says: “Where, verily, everything has become the Self, then by what and whom should one smell, then by what and whom should one see, then by what and whom should one hear...?”