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 2.390
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आनर्थक्यादिदं तर्हि त्यज्यतां शिशुवाक्यवत् ।
प्रवेशवाक्यं नैवं तद्गत्यन्तरसमाश्रयात् ॥ ३९० ॥
ānarthakyādidaṃ tarhi tyajyatāṃ śiśuvākyavat |
praveśavākyaṃ naivaṃ tadgatyantarasamāśrayāt || 390 ||
English translation of verse 2.390:
Then, as conveying no meaning, this text dealing with the entry (of Brahman) has to be discarded like the babbling of a child. (The Siddhāntin answers:) It is not so, since it can be explained in some other way.
Notes:
The opponent concludes his critical review, which was begun in verse (379), by saying that the text dealing with the entry of Brahman into the world has to be summarily rejected as meaningless.
The statement of the final position (siddhānta) according to Advaita, which is begun in the second line of the verse after rejecting the opponent’s view, will be concluded in verse (401).