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 1.74
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कर्णाभ्यां चैव वेदार्थं भूरि विश्रुणुयाम्यहम् ।
ब्रह्मणश्चासि कोशस्त्वमसेरिव परात्मनः ॥ ७४ ॥
karṇābhyāṃ caiva vedārthaṃ bhūri viśruṇuyāmyaham |
brahmaṇaścāsi kośastvamaseriva parātmanaḥ || 74 ||
English translation of verse 1.74:
May I, through my ears, listen abundantly to the meaning of the Vedas. You are the sheath of Brahman, the supreme Self, like the scabbard of a sword.
Notes:
Since the syllable Om, being a sound, is insentient (śabdamātratvena acetanatvāt), how could it be, It may be argued, the giver of intelligence and the supreme Lord (indraḥ, parameśvaraḥ)? The answer to this objection is stated in the second line of the verse. Just as the scabbard is the support or the seat (ālambana) for a sword, so also the syllable Om is the seat of Brahman-realization (brahma-upalabdhisthāna). It is the symbol of Brahman; through it Brahman is realized. Hence, it can be looked upon as the giver of intelligence, etc., and the supreme Lord.