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 2.665
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वदा चात्मरूपत्वाद् व्यभिचारादनात्मनः ।
ब्रह्मात्मनि स्वतः सिद्धं ज्ञानं मोहापनोदि यत् ॥ ६६५ ॥
sarvadā cātmarūpatvād vyabhicārādanātmanaḥ |
brahmātmani svataḥ siddhaṃ jñānaṃ mohāpanodi yat || 665 ||
English translation of verse 2.665:
Since consciousness which constitutes the nature of the Self (is constant), and since the not-Self is inconstant, the knowledge which is ever-existent in Brahman-Ātman (manifested by the mental mode) removes ignorance.
Notes:
As a result of the study of the śruti texts followed by reflection thereon, there arises the appropriate mental mode (buddhi-vṛtti) which manifests Brahman-consciousness. The idea here is that, since the internal organ is pure (svaccha-dravyatvāt), it is capable of reflecting Brahman-consciousness (nedamahaṅkārasya cidabhivyañjakatvaṃ cidava-
bhāsakatvaṃ, kintu citpratiphalanagrāhakatvam). It is not pure consciousness as such, but consciousness reflected in the appropriate mode of the internal organ alone that serves to remove ignorance. There is, therefore, no need for "another knowledge” which is the subject of an injunction as argued by the opponent.