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 2.745-746
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
लिङ्गदेहाश्रितं कार्श्यं तच्च कर्मनिबन्धनम् ।
कर्म कर्त्रादिसम्भूतं कर्त्राद्यज्ञानहेतुकम् ॥ ७४५ ॥
अहं ब्रह्मेत्यतो ज्ञानाद्ध्वस्तायां प्रत्यगात्मनि ।
कार्श्यहेतावविद्यायामेकत्वाद्बलयत्ययम् ॥ ७४६ ॥
liṅgadehāśritaṃ kārśyaṃ tacca karmanibandhanam |
karma kartrādisambhūtaṃ kartrādyajñānahetukam || 745 ||
ahaṃ brahmetyato jñānāddhvastāyāṃ pratyagātmani |
kārśyahetāvavidyāyāmekatvādbalayatyayam || 746 ||
English translation of verse 2.745-746:
Weakness is dependent on the subtle body, and it is due to karma. Karma is caused by agent, etc., and agent, etc., are due to ignorance. When ignorance of the inward Self, which is the cause of weakness, is destroyed by the knowledge, “I am Brahman,” he strengthens the Self, because it remains as one alone.