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 2.579
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्तरा नामरूपे ये ब्रह्मबाह्ये तयोर्हि तत् ।
न स्तो ब्रह्मणि ते भानावुदयास्तमयाविव ॥ ५७९ ॥
antarā nāmarūpe ye brahmabāhye tayorhi tat |
na sto brahmaṇi te bhānāvudayāstamayāviva || 579 ||
English translation of verse 2.579:
The name and form are different from Brahman, and Brahman is different from them. They do not exist in Brahman-in the same way as the rising and the setting do not exist in the sun.
Notes:
That name and form are different from Brahman is clearly stated in the Chāndogya text (VIII, xiv, 1): “He who is called Akāśa is the revealer of name and form. That which is distinct from them is Brahman.”
Though vidyā and avidyā which belong to the sphere of nāma-rūpa are different from Brahman, one may suggest that they are nevertheless related to Brahman. Even this possibility is ruied out, because śruti says that Brahman is unattached to anything (see the Bṛhadāraṇyaka text, IV, iii, 15). Just as the rising and the setting are imagined to exist in the sun, so also knowledge and ignorance are imagined to exist in Brahman.