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 2.441
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अतोऽविद्यानिषेधेन सर्वदाऽवाप्तिरूपिणः ।
प्राप्तिः स्यादात्महेतुत्वादिति पूर्वमवादिषम् ॥ ४४१ ॥
ato'vidyāniṣedhena sarvadā'vāptirūpiṇaḥ |
prāptiḥ syādātmahetutvāditi pūrvamavādiṣam || 441 ||
English translation of verse 2.441:
It has already been said that, since Brahman is the Self of all, from knowledge there is attainment of Brahman, who is always present, by removing ignorance.
Notes:
The śruti text, “The knower of Brahman attains the Supreme,” restricts the attainment of Brahman to a man of knowledge. Attainment of Brahman in this sense is not common to both a man of knowledge and an ignorant one. When we say that Brahman-knowledge is the means to the attainment of Brahman, what is meant is that knowing or realizing Brahman is attaining it.
Ānandagiri says that the word ataḥ which occurs in the first line of the verse recalls to our memory the knowledge of Brahman, which is the means to the attainment of Brahman (tattvajñānaṃ pañcamyā parāmṛśyate).