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 2.90
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स्वरूपमात्मनो ज्ञानं न तस्माद्व्यतिरिच्यते ।
बुद्धेः प्रत्ययकारित्वं तत्साक्षिण्युपचर्यते ॥ ९० ॥
svarūpamātmano jñānaṃ na tasmādvyatiricyate |
buddheḥ pratyayakāritvaṃ tatsākṣiṇyupacaryate || 90 ||
English translation of verse 2.90:
Knowledge which is the nature of the Self is not different from it. The cognitive functioning of the mind is ascribed by courtesy to the Witness thereof.
Notes:
The internal organ which carries the reflection of consciousness (sābhāsa-antaḥkaraṇa) is the knower, the agent in the act of knowing. The Self which is only a witness thereto is only knowledge and not a knower.