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 1.105
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उक्तानां पुनरुक्तिः स्यादुपासानियियंसया ।
यथोक्ता व्याहृतिरेतावेदोपास्ते तु यो नरः ।
स वेद सकलं ब्रह्म वक्ष्यमाणविशेषणम् ॥ १०५ ॥
uktānāṃ punaruktiḥ syādupāsāniyiyaṃsayā |
yathoktā vyāhṛtiretāvedopāste tu yo naraḥ |
sa veda sakalaṃ brahma vakṣyamāṇaviśeṣaṇam || 105 ||
English translation of verse 1.105:
The repetition of what was said (regarding the four Vyāhṛtis which become each four) is for emphasising the sequence of meditation (on them). A person who meditates on these Vyāhṛtis as stated above knows Brahman fully as qualified by the attributes to be mentioned.
Notes:
The repetition is not for praising the Vyāhṛtis, but to emphasise that each Vyāhṛti must be meditated upon in its four aspects in the proper sequence so that the entire meditation may comprehend the supreme Spirit (Puruṣa) in its sixteen phases. The sixteen divisions of the Vyāhṛtis correspond to the Ṣoḍaśakala Puruṣa mentioned, for instance, in the Praśna Upaniṣad (VI, 5).