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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

पाङ्क्तमेव जगत्सर्वमिति दृष्ट्वाऽभ्यधादृषिः ।
पाङ्क्तं वा इदमाब्रह्मस्तम्बं नान्यदिति स्म ह ॥ १३३ ॥

pāṅktameva jagatsarvamiti dṛṣṭvā'bhyadhādṛṣiḥ |
pāṅktaṃ vā idamābrahmastambaṃ nānyaditi sma ha || 133 ||

English translation of verse 1.133:

Intuiting that the whole universe consists of fivemembered groups of objects, the sage said that this (universe) from Brahmā down to the plant is Pāṅkta and nothing else.

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