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 2.324
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अपि चाऽऽनन्दरूपस्य ब्रह्मत्वं बहुशः श्रुतम् ।
तथा चाऽऽनन्दवल्लीति व्यपदेशोऽपि युज्यते ॥ ३२४ ॥
api cā''nandarūpasya brahmatvaṃ bahuśaḥ śrutam |
tathā cā''nandavallīti vyapadeśo'pi yujyate || 324 ||
English translation of verse 2.324:
Further, bliss is often declared in śruti to be of the nature of Brahman. And there is also the appropriateness of the name Ānandavallī (given to this chapter of the Upaniṣad).
Notes:
The opponent adduces other reasons, too, in support of his view. The second chapter of the Taittirīya Upaniṣad is called Brahmavallī or Ānandavallī. The name Ānandavallī is given to this chapter, because Brahman, which is bliss, is the principal theme taken up for discussion and elucidation in this chapter, and not the jīva. Further, that bliss is Brahman has been stated in many a śruti text. Consider, for instance, the Bṛhadāraṇyaka text, (III, ix, 28. 7), “Knowledge, bliss, is Brahman.” The Chāndogya (VII, xxiii, 1) says, “That which is infinite is bliss.” There is yet another reason. The suffix mayaṭ in the expression ānandamaya has to be understood in the sense of abundance (prācuryārtha), and this interpretation which is quite tenable conveys the idea, according to the opponent, that Brahman is full of bliss.
The opponent’s view is refuted in verses (325) to (341).