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 2.473
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अपि वालाग्रमात्रेण विदुषः प्रत्यगात्मनः ।
भिन्नं ब्रह्मेति सम्मोहादात्मैवास्य भयं भवेत् ।
व्याख्यानं वा पुरोक्तस्य च्छिद्रस्य क्रियतेऽनया ॥ ४७३ ॥
api vālāgramātreṇa viduṣaḥ pratyagātmanaḥ |
bhinnaṃ brahmeti sammohādātmaivāsya bhayaṃ bhavet |
vyākhyānaṃ vā puroktasya cchidrasya kriyate'nayā || 473 ||
English translation of verse 2.473:
To the (apparently) learned, man, who, on account of ignorance, sees Brahman as different from the inward Self to such a small extent as the tip of a hair, his very Self becomes a source of fear. Or, another explanation of difference spoken of earlier is given by this (passage).
Notes:
The two preceding verses have set forth the meaning of the expression tattveva bhayam. This verse explains the meaning of viduṣo'manvānasya which is the remaining part of the śruti text.
Here the word viduṣaḥ means a person who is apparently learned. The learning of such a person is only outward. Though learned, he is still ignorant because he perceives difference between Brahman and the Self.