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 2.447
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पञ्चमोऽत्र निरुक्तः स्यात्पारिशेष्यात्फलात्मकः ।
अत्यानन्दमयं ब्रह्म त्वनिरुक्तं परं पदम् ॥ ४४७ ॥
pañcamo'tra niruktaḥ syātpāriśeṣyātphalātmakaḥ |
atyānandamayaṃ brahma tvaniruktaṃ paraṃ padam || 447 ||
English translation of verse 2.447:
The word nirukta here stands for the fifth sheath (viz., the ānandamaya-kośa), the enjoyer of the fruit (of upāsanā and karma), because it is what is left over. Brahman, the supreme goal, which transcends the ānandamaya, is aniruktam.
Notes:
Of the five sheaths, dṛśya stands for the annamaya-kośa, ātmya for the next three kośas and nirukta for the ānandamaya-kośa, the jīva who is the semblance of the pure consciousness.
The word anirukta refers by implication to the pure consciousness which is beyond cause and effect and which is implied by the word “Thou” (kārya-kārana-vinirmuktaṃ tvaṃpada-lakṣyam cinmātramanirukta-śabda-vācyam).