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 2.450
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मूर्तामूर्तौ हि राशी द्वौ सच्च त्यच्चादिनोदितौ ।
श्रुत्यन्तरेण सङ्गानात्तयोरेवास्त्वपह्नुतिः ॥ ४५० ॥
mūrtāmūrtau hi rāśī dvau sacca tyaccādinoditau |
śrutyantareṇa saṅgānāttayorevāstvapahnutiḥ || 450 ||
English translation of verse 2.450:
By sat and tyat, etc., the two categories, viz., the gross and the subtle forms, have been spoken of. Since this (explanation) is in agreement with another śruti text, the denial of these is meant (here).
Notes:
The gross and the subtle are the two forms of Brahman. The gross form (mūrta) indicated by the word sat includes earth, water, and fire. Tire remaining two elements, air and ether, constitute the subtle torn (amūrta) indicated by the word tyat. After explaining the two forms of Brahman, the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (II, iii, 6) describes Brahman as “not this, not this.” The same Upaniṣad in a subsequent section (III, ix, 26) speaks of the Self as that which has been described as “not this, not this”, and says that the Self is imperceptible (agṛhya), undecaying (aśīrya), unattached (asaṅga), and so on. The negative description of Brahman as adṛśya, anātmya, anirukta, and so on, given in the Taittirīya is in agreement with the Bṛhadāraṇyaka description of Brahman as neti neti.