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 2.270
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यथोक्तान्नमयादस्मादन्यः स्यात्तद्विलक्षणः ।
अन्तरः प्रत्यगित्येतदात्मा चात्मसमन्वयात् ॥ २७० ॥
yathoktānnamayādasmādanyaḥ syāttadvilakṣaṇaḥ |
antaraḥ pratyagityetadātmā cātmasamanvayāt || 270 ||
English translation of verse 2.270:
The word anya (in the śruti text) means different from this annamaya as described. The word antara means its inward self. It is called ātmā, since it pervades (the annamaya-kośa).
Notes:
This verse explains the meanings of the words contained in the text anyo'ntara ātmā. The meaning of the text is that the sheath of vital force (prāṇamaya-kośa) which is inward to the sheath of food (annamaya-kośa) is different from it. Being the cause, it pervades the annamaya-kośa, and so it is the self or the essence (svarūpa) of the annamaya-kośa.