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 2.574
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अनिवर्त्य स्वमात्मानं न भयस्य निराक्रिया ।
निवृत्तावपि नैव स्यान्निवृत्त्यैव समाप्तितः ॥ ५७४ ॥
anivartya svamātmānaṃ na bhayasya nirākriyā |
nivṛttāvapi naiva syānnivṛttyaiva samāptitaḥ || 574 ||
English translation of verse 2.574:
Without destroying one’s Self, the removal of fear is not possible. Though fear is thus removed (through the destruction of the Self), it is of no use, because it has ended in the destruction (of the Self).
Notes:
The untenability of the second alternative mentioned in the previous verse is reiterated in this verse.
If the removal of fear could be achieved only through the destruction of the Self, then there would be none to reap the fruit of the cessation of fear. The removal in this way of fear, which proves suicidal, is of no avail.