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 2.62
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अतस्तत्प्रतिषेधार्थमनन्तमिति शब्द्यते ।
अन्तः सीमा तथेयत्ता तन्निषेधस्त्वनन्तता ॥ ६२ ॥
atastatpratiṣedhārthamanantamiti śabdyate |
antaḥ sīmā tatheyattā tanniṣedhastvanantatā || 62 ||
English translation of verse 2.62:
So in order to deny that (objection), the word “infinite” is used. The word antaḥ means limit, and also a fixed measure; and its opposite is infinitude.
Notes:
The objection stated in the previous verse is now answered.
The cognition of an empirical object obtained through the modification of the mental mode (antaḥkaraṇavṛtti) is finite. But Brahman which is of the nature of knowledge is immutable (kūṭastha). It is not vṛtti-jñāna, but svarūpa-jñāna. It is infinite (ananta) inasmuch as it transcends the limitations of space, time, and object.