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 2.178
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अनात्मेतीह यद्भाति तदविद्याविजृम्भितम् ।
तस्मादविद्या साऽप्युक्ता विद्या त्वात्मैकरूपिणी ॥ १७८ ॥
anātmetīha yadbhāti tadavidyāvijṛmbhitam |
tasmādavidyā sā'pyuktā vidyā tvātmaikarūpiṇī || 178 ||
English translation of verse 2.178:
That which is known here as the not-Self is the result of avidyā. Hence it can be said that it is also avidyā. But knowledge is identical with the Self.
Notes:
If the sole reality that exists is Brahman-Ātman, then anything other than Brahman is due to avidyā. It is, indeed, a product of avidyā. And so the not-Self, whatever it may be, may be characterized as avidyā. But knowledge (vidyā) is the Self alone.