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 2.237
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
जग्ध्वा कार्यात्मतामेवं कारणात्मतया स्थितः . ।
आत्मनाऽऽलिङ्गते ब्रह्म वाक्याज्जग्ध्वा च तामपि ॥ २३७ ॥
jagdhvā kāryātmatāmevaṃ kāraṇātmatayā sthitaḥ . |
ātmanā''liṅgate brahma vākyājjagdhvā ca tāmapi || 237 ||
English translation of verse 2.237:
Thus, after resolving what is of the nature of the effect (in its cause) and remaining of the nature of the cause (viz., ajñāta-brahma), and finally resolving even that by the knowledge conveyed by the śruti text, the wise man attains Brahman which is of the nature of the Self.
Notes:
When a person resorts to the process of resolving every effect in its cause he vill eventually come to ānanda, the first cause, otherwise called ajñāta-brahma. It means that at this stage he identifies himself with the first cause which constitutes the essence of everything in the world. But this is only the penultimate stage. The knowledge of nondifference between Brahman and Ātman conveyed by the principal text tat tvam asi helps him to transcend even this stage by resolving the first cause in Brahman from which it is non-different, and realize the nondual Brahman which is identical with the Seif and which is free from cause-effect relation.