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 2.299
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वे वेदाश्च यत्रैकं भवन्तीति श्रुतेर्वचः ।
आदेशो ब्राह्मणं विद्याद्यस्मात्स विधिरूपभृत् ॥ २९९ ॥
sarve vedāśca yatraikaṃ bhavantīti śrutervacaḥ |
ādeśo brāhmaṇaṃ vidyādyasmātsa vidhirūpabhṛt || 299 ||
English translation of verse 2.299:
There is also the utterance of śruti that “in the Self (which abides in the mind) all the Vedas become united.”
Notes:
The word ādeśa means the Brāhmaṇa portion (of the Vedas) since it is in the form of injunction.
The Yajur-mantra and the like are eternal only because they are identical with the eternal Self. That they are identical with the eternal Self is clearly set forth in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka (III, xi, 1) quoted in the verse.
The word ādeśa which occurs in the śruti passage ādeśa ātmā means the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Vedas. which consists of injunctions.