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 2.111
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सत्यादिलक्षणान्नान्यद्धियः प्रत्यक्प्रतीयते ॥ १११ ॥
satyādilakṣaṇānnānyaddhiyaḥ pratyakpratīyate || 111 ||
English translation of verse 2.111:
Or, considering the real position, śruti says that the Unmanifested called the supreme Space is in the intellect. No other inward being is, indeed, seen (within the intellect) than Brahman which is defined as real, etc.
Notes:
In the previous verse, the intellect has been referred to as that which is located in the highest Space (parame vyomni sthitā yā guhā buddhiḥ). Now the Avyākṛta, the Unmanifested, which is referred to as the supreme Space, is said to be seated in the intellect (guhāyāṃ vyoman). Here the word vyoma does not mean the element ākāśa. The latter is the effect of the Unmanifested, and so it cannot be characterized as supreme.
The pure Brahman which transcends the cause-effect relation is placed in the Unmanifested called vyoma which, again, being the cause of the intellect, is inherent in it, just as clay which is the cause is inherent in pot, pan, and other objects which are its effects.