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 2.86
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आत्मैव चेत्परं ब्रह्म भवताऽभ्युपगम्यते ।
आत्मनो ज्ञानकर्तृत्वाज्ज्ञानं स्यात्कर्तृसाधनम् ॥ ८६ ॥
ātmaiva cetparaṃ brahma bhavatā'bhyupagamyate |
ātmano jñānakartṛtvājjñānaṃ syātkartṛsādhanam || 86 ||
English translation of verse 2.86:
If it is accepted by you that the supreme Brahman is the Self alone, then (Brahman is a knower) because the Self is the agent of cognition. The word jñāna is used in the sense of the agent of cognition.
Notes:
This verse, as well as the next one, states the opponent’s view.
If Brahman is non-different from the Self, it becomes a knower (jñātā), for it is a well-known fact that the Self is a knower, the agent of cognition.