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 2.453
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दृश्यादिप्रतिषेधोक्त्या प्रतीचि ब्रह्म बोध्यते ।
न तदन्यत्तदन्यस्य परमार्थात्मता कुतः ॥ ४५३ ॥
dṛśyādipratiṣedhoktyā pratīci brahma bodhyate |
na tadanyattadanyasya paramārthātmatā kutaḥ || 453 ||
English translation of verse 2.453:
Through the negation of the world which is perceptible, etc., the oneness of Brahman and the Self is taught (by śruti). Brahman is not different from the Seif. How can any other thing (than the Self) be absolutely real?
Notes:
Though the śruti text etasminnadṛśye'nātmye, etc., serves to negate the cause-effect-world, its purport is in the revelation of the nature of the Self and not in the negation of the world. The negation of the things of the world which are perceptible, insentient, and finite is a logical preliminary to the revelation of the nature of the Self (niṣedhasya vastusiddhau dvāratvāt na niṣedhaparaṃ vākyam, kintu vastuparam).
Śruti teaches that Brahman is in the Self (pratīci-brahma bodhyate). It only means that Brahman is identical with the Self and not something different from it. If Brahman were to be something different from the Self, it would cease to be real.