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 2.553
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निश्चितं हि परिज्ञानं फलवत्स्यात्प्रसिद्धितः ॥ ५५३ ॥
niścitaṃ hi parijñānaṃ phalavatsyātprasiddhitaḥ || 553 ||
English translation of verse 2.553:
It is, indeed, well-known that indisputable knowledge alone is fruitful.
Notes:
If we wish co ascertain the view which is free from defect, and therefore tenable, it is because of the fact that only a determinate and certain knowledge (niścita-jñāna) will be of benefit to us.