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 2.37
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विभिन्नवेत्तृवेद्यादौ गौणं ब्रह्म यतस्ततः ।
अभिन्नवेत्तृवेद्यादि ग्राह्यं मुख्यार्थसिद्धये ॥ ३७ ॥
vibhinnavettṛvedyādau gauṇaṃ brahma yatastataḥ |
abhinnavettṛvedyādi grāhyaṃ mukhyārthasiddhaye || 37 ||
English translation of verse 2.37:
Since the word brahma will be understood in the secondary sense so long as the knower, the known, etc., are admitted to be different from Brahman, the knower, the known, etc., must be viewed as non-different from Brahman with a view to get the primary sense (of the word brahma).
Notes:
If the attainment of Brahman is real, Brahman cannot be infinite, great which is, indeed, the primary meaning of the word brahma. In that case we may have to adopt the secondary sense by giving up the primary meaning. If we are to retain the primary sense, then Brahman must be understood as one and non-dual, as free from distinctions such as the knower, the known, etc. It follows, therefore, that Brahman appears to be different from the knower due to ignorance, and that it is attained through knowledge when ignorance is removed In short, the attainment of Brahman is only figurative.