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 2.312
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
महत्तत्वं महो ग्राह्यं नीडं कार्यस्य तद्यतः ।
व्याचष्टे तन्महद्यक्षं श्रुतिः प्रथमजं तु यत् ॥ ३१२ ॥
mahattatvaṃ maho grāhyaṃ nīḍaṃ kāryasya tadyataḥ |
vyācaṣṭe tanmahadyakṣaṃ śrutiḥ prathamajaṃ tu yat || 312 ||
English translation of verse 2.312:
By the word mahaḥ that principle called Mahat must be understood, because it is the source of all effects, śruti has explained it as great, adorable, and the first-born.
Notes:
Mahat here refers to the Sūtrātman. The śruti text quoted in the second line of the verse is from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (V, iv, 1) which says: “He who knows this great, adorable, first-born (being) as the Satya-Brahman, conquers these worlds...” The Sūtrātman is called the great (mahat) because it is the cause or the source of all effects.