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 2.42
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कर्तृर्ज्ञातुर्हि या दृष्टिः सामान्याद्यर्थसंश्रया ।
तत्प्रत्यगात्मदृष्ट्या तां प्रत्याख्यायाश्नुते परम् ॥ ४२ ॥
kartṛrjñāturhi yā dṛṣṭiḥ sāmānyādyarthasaṃśrayā |
tatpratyagātmadṛṣṭyā tāṃ pratyākhyāyāśnute param || 42 ||
English translation of verse 2.42:
A person, indeed, attains the Supreme by sublating the cognition of the universal, etc., based on the agency of the knower, through the knowledge of the inward Self.
Notes:
Every cognition, whether it is of a universal (sāmānya) or a particular (viśeṣa), is obtained through the modification of the internal organ (antaḥkaraṇa). Agency (kartṛtva [kartṛtvam]) and cognizership (jñātṛtva [jñātṛtvam]) are the attributes of the internal organ and not of the Self or the ‘I’ which is immutable and which is free from attributes. As a result of the superimposition (adhyāsa) of the nature of the internal organ on that of the Self, a person says: “I am the agent,” “I am the cognizer.” The attainment of the Supreme, the highest good, which is liberation, consists in the removal of the cognition of the various objects such as the universal, etc., which are not-Self by the immutable knowledge (kūtastha-dṛṣṭi) which is Brahman-Ātman.