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 2.668
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
इदमेवमदो नेति यथैवार्थमृते विधिम् ।
वेत्ति तत्त्वमसीत्येवं किं न वेत्त्यभिधाश्रुतेः ॥ ६६८ ॥
idamevamado neti yathaivārthamṛte vidhim |
vetti tattvamasītyevaṃ kiṃ na vettyabhidhāśruteḥ || 668 ||
English translation of verse 2.668:
If a person knows the meaning, “This is thus,” and “That is not thus,” (from the ritual-section of the Veda) in the absence of a separate injunction, why can he not know the meaning of the text tat tvam asi from the text itself which has the power to convey the meaning?
Notes:
There is no difference in respect of understanding the meaning of a karma-vākya, an injunctive text which enjoins a certain action, contained in the ritual-section of the Veda (karma-kāṇḍa) and an assertive Vedānta text contained in the knowlegde-section of the Veda (jñāna-kāṇḍa). In order to understand the meaning of a text which enjoins an action, a separate injunction is not required. The knowledge of the action to be done takes place from that text itself without that knowledge being enjoined by another injunction. In the same way from the assertive Vedānta texts such as tat tvam asi we get the knowledge of Brahman-Ātman, without that knowledge being enjoined by an injunction.