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 2.180
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्मात्सदसदित्यादिर्विकल्पो मूढचेतसाम् ।
निरूप्यमाणो निर्वाति न वेद्मीत्यग्रहात्मनि ॥ १८० ॥
tasmātsadasadityādirvikalpo mūḍhacetasām |
nirūpyamāṇo nirvāti na vedmītyagrahātmani || 180 ||
English translation of verse 2.180:
So, the differentiation such as being and non-being (in respect of the not-Self) which is worked out by the deluded mind ends in the non-perception (which is avidyā) in the form, “I do not know.”
Notes:
The only reality which exists is Brahman-Ātman. It alone is Being (sat). The not-Self, i.e., anything other than the Self, is only an illusory appearance due to the non-perception of the ultimate reality. Nevertheless, a deluded person works out a distinction among the things of the world as being (sat) and non-being (asat). He looks upon certain objects as being and some others as non-being (asat), though there is no justification for such a distinction; for all of them, being not-Self, are illusory appearance due to avidyā. This distinction is meaningful only so long as the nature of the Self is not known, i.e., so long as there is the functioning of avidyā in the form of the non-perception of the nature of the Self.