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 2.303
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अभिधाननिवृत्तिर्हि ब्रह्मणो नान्यतो यतः ।
सदावगमरूपत्वान्मनो यस्मान्निवर्तते ॥ ३०३ ॥
abhidhānanivṛttirhi brahmaṇo nānyato yataḥ |
sadāvagamarūpatvānmano yasmānnivartate || 303 ||
English translation of verse 2.303:
It is, indeed, Brahman and not anything else which is inaccessible to words. Since Brahman is eternal consciousness, the mind turns back from that (Brahman).
Notes:
The fourth anuvāka of the Upaniṣad is covered by verses (303) to (312).
This verse brings out the meaning of the Mantra text, yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha, which occurs at the beginning of the fourth anuvāka. The manomaya, according to this mantra, is inaccessible to words and mind. This will be tenable only if the states of the mind in which the eternal consciousness is reflected are looked upon as identical with the eternal consciousness which cannot be comprehended by the mind and words.