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 2.31
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
फलोक्तिः परमाप्नोतीत्याप्ता ब्रह्मविदुच्यते ।
सामर्थ्याद् ब्रह्मविद्या तु परस्यावाप्तिसाधनम् ॥ ३१ ॥
phaloktiḥ paramāpnotītyāptā brahmaviducyate |
sāmarthyād brahmavidyā tu parasyāvāptisādhanam || 31 ||
English translation of verse 2.31:
The fruit is stated in the words “attains the Supreme”; the attainer of the fruit is spoken of as “the knower of Brahman.” From what is conveyed by this sentence it follows that Brahman-knowledge is the means to the attainment of the Supreme.