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 2.307
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिर्वृत्तिमानित्युदीर्यते ।
यज्ञं तनुत इत्येतत्कर्तृत्वे सति युज्यते ॥ ३०७ ॥
vyavasāyātmikā buddhirvṛttimānityudīryate |
yajñaṃ tanuta ityetatkartṛtve sati yujyate || 307 ||
English translation of verse 2.307:
The intellect which is of the nature of certitude is said to be the vṛttimān, that which possesses the mental modes. The expression yajñaṃ tanute is justifiable only if there is agency (for the vijñāna).
Notes:
Buddhi or the intellect is that mode of the internal organ which stands for certitude or determinative cognition (vyavasāya). The vijñānamaya-kośa which is inward to the manomaya-kośa consists of buddhi, which is otherwise called vijñāna, and the organs of knowledge. The word vijñāna here does not mean the mental mode (vṛtti), but that which has the mental mode (vṛttimān). The Upaniṣad says in the sequel, “Intelligence actualises a sacrifice,” (vijñānaṃ yajñaṃ tanute). This statement will be intelligible only if buddhi or vijñāna which carries the reflection of the consciousness is treated as an agent who performs a sacrifice.