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 2.702
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
परस्वभावविध्वंसवर्त्मनैवात्मवस्तुनः ।
वक्ष्यत्यवगतिं चोर्ध्वं विधिनैवेति दुस्थितम् ॥ ७०२ ॥
parasvabhāvavidhvaṃsavartmanaivātmavastunaḥ |
vakṣyatyavagatiṃ cordhvaṃ vidhinaiveti dusthitam || 702 ||
English translation of verse 2.702:
Through the process of negating the alien forms (like the annamaya, etc.) śruti will, in the sequel, convey the knowledge of the Self. So it cannot be said that through an injunction alone (this knowledge of the Self is obtained).