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 2.415
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यदिदंशब्दधीगम्यं प्रागसत्तदभूज्जगत् ।
असच्छब्देन चात्र स्याद्ब्रह्मैवानामरूपकम् ॥ ४१५ ॥
yadidaṃśabdadhīgamyaṃ prāgasattadabhūjjagat |
asacchabdena cātra syādbrahmaivānāmarūpakam || 415 ||
English translation of verse 2.415:
The universe which is referred to by the word “this” was in the beginning asat. By the word asat, Brahman which has not manifested itself as the world of names and forms is meant here.
Notes:
The seventh anuvāka of the Upaniṣad is covered by verses (415) to (479).
This verse explains the meaning of the text asadvā idamagra āsīt which is a part of the verse occurring at the commencement of the seventh anuvāka. In the beginning, this world of name and form which we experience was asat, the unmanifested Brahman. The word asat should not be explained as the void (śūnya), for the world of name and form cannot come out of the void.