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 2.448
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निलीयते जगद्यस्मिन्निलीनं जायते यतः ।
निलयं तत्परं ब्रूमः कोशपञ्चककारणम् ॥ ४४८ ॥
nilīyate jagadyasminnilīnaṃ jāyate yataḥ |
nilayaṃ tatparaṃ brūmaḥ kośapañcakakāraṇam || 448 ||
English translation of verse 2.448:
That supreme Unmanifested Brahman in which the universe is merged, whence the submerged universe comes into being, and which is the cause of the five sheaths—that we call nilayana.
Notes:
The Avyākṛta, the Unmanifested Brahman, is the cause of the universe. It is that in which the universe is merged at the time of pralaya. It is from the same Avyākṛta that the dissolved universe comes into be- ing at the time of creation. Since it is the abode for the entire universe, it is called nilayana.
The word anilayana refers to Brahman, the eternal, ever-free, pure consciousness, which is implied by the word “That” and which constitutes the svarūpa of the jīva (anilayana-śabdena tatpada-lakṣyam, nitya-śuddha-buddha-mukta-svabhāvaṃ tvaṃpadārtha-svarūpabhūtaṃ brahmocyate). Since in the śruti text anirukte anilayane abhayaṃ pratiṣṭhāṃ vindate, the two words anirukta and anilayana are in co-ordinate relation, they refer to one and the same being, viz., Brahman-Ātman.