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 2.611
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रमाता च प्रमाणं च प्रमेयो निश्चितिस्तथा ।
यत्सान्निध्यात्प्रसिध्यन्ति तत्सिद्धौ किमपेक्षते ॥ ६११ ॥
pramātā ca pramāṇaṃ ca prameyo niścitistathā |
yatsānnidhyātprasidhyanti tatsiddhau kimapekṣate || 611 ||
English translation of verse 2.611:
What evidence is needed for establishing that (Brahman) by whose presence the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the resulting knowledge get established?
Notes:
When we claim to know anything, three factors are involved—(1) pramātā, the subject of knowledge, (2) prameya, the object known, and (3) pramāṇa, the instrument of knowledge. When the necessary conditions of knowledge are fulfilled, knowledge takes place. The resulting knowledge is called pramiti. It is the Witness-consciousness that reveals all these. That Brahman-consciousness by which everything is known cannot be known by other pramāṇas. What is presupposed in all means of knowledge cannot be established through them.