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 2.49
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ननु व्यभिचरद्वस्तु स्याद्विशेष्यं विशेषणैः ।
ब्रह्मान्तरादृते त्वत्र कुतो ब्रूहि विशेष्यता ॥ ४९ ॥
nanu vyabhicaradvastu syādviśeṣyaṃ viśeṣaṇaiḥ |
brahmāntarādṛte tvatra kuto brūhi viśeṣyatā || 49 ||
English translation of verse 2.49:
If an object is different (from others of the same class) it can be a substance qualified by attributes. But, here, since there is no other Brahman, pray, tell, how can it be the qualified?
Notes:
An objection against the explanation of Brahman as the qualified and satyam, etc., as attributes is stated in this verse.
One object can be distinguished from others of the same class by means of attributes which qualify it. A particular lily can be distinguished from other lilies by using attributes such as blue, red, etc. But that is not possible, it is argued, in the case of Brahman which is said to be one and non-dual. Unlike the blue lily which can be distinguished from the red lily, etc., there is no other Brahman from which it has to be distinguished by means of a attributes. If so, how can it be the qualified?