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 2.608
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अवशिष्टं स्वतो बुद्धं शुद्धं मुक्तं ततो भवेत् ।
नातः स्याद्भावनापेक्षा नापि मानान्तरं प्रति ॥ ६०८ ॥
avaśiṣṭaṃ svato buddhaṃ śuddhaṃ muktaṃ tato bhavet |
nātaḥ syādbhāvanāpekṣā nāpi mānāntaraṃ prati || 608 ||
English translation of verse 2.608:
Then there remains that one reality which is by its very nature consciousness, pure, and free. Hence there is no need of meditation (and of injunction in respect of attaining Brahman-knowledge). Nor is there any need of another pramāṇa (in this regard).
Notes:
When avidyā which veils the nature of Brahman is removed, the latter remains in its own form as the eternal, ever-free, self-luminous consciousness.
In order to attain the knowledge of Brahman, which is of the nature of self-luminous consciousness, through śabda, neither meditation (bhāvanā) nor injunction (niyoga) is required. Since Brahman is ever-existent, nothing is to be gained by means of both meditation and injunction. Since it is of the nature of self-luminous consciousness, there is no need of another pramāṇa for the purpose of knowing it.