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 2.33
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ब्रह्मैवात्र परं ग्राह्यं तज्ज्ञानं नान्यसिद्धये ।
अन्यज्ज्ञानं हि नान्यस्य क्वचिदप्याप्तये यतः ॥ ३३ ॥
brahmaivātra paraṃ grāhyaṃ tajjñānaṃ nānyasiddhaye |
anyajjñānaṃ hi nānyasya kvacidapyāptaye yataḥ || 33 ||
English translation of verse 2.33:
Here (in the text Brahmavid āpnoti param) Brahman alone is meant by the word “supreme” (param). Brahmanknowledge cannot be a means to the attainment of something else; for the knowledge of one thing cannot, indeed, anywhere be the means to the attainment of something else.