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 2.465
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्योऽसावीश्वरो मत्तस्तस्माच्चाहमनीश्वरः ।
इति च्छिद्रयतोऽच्छिद्रं छिद्रेऽनर्थो भवेद्भयम् ॥ ४६५ ॥
anyo'sāvīśvaro mattastasmāccāhamanīśvaraḥ |
iti cchidrayato'cchidraṃ chidre'nartho bhavedbhayam || 465 ||
English translation of verse 2.465:
That Īśvara is different from me, and so am I different from Īśvara—thus making a difference where there is no difference, he attains the evil of fear in that difference.
Notes:
The śruti text atha tasya bhayaṃ bhavati states the result which follows consequent on the perception of difference between the jīva and Brahman. An ignorant man who thinks that he is different from Brahman, though this difference being the work of avidyā is not real, is subject to fear.
The word anīśvaraḥ which occurs in the first line of the verse means īśvarādanyaḥ, different from īśvara.