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 3.21
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यतो वा इति चैवं स्यादुक्तमेवं परं तपः ॥ २१ ॥
yato vā iti caivaṃ syāduktamevaṃ paraṃ tapaḥ || 21 ||
English translation of verse 3.21:
Even the definition of Brahman as “That from which all these beings are born,” etc., indicates the highest tapas which has been stated.
Notes:
Sureśvara argues that his explanation of tapas as inquiry by the method of anvaya aud vyatireka is implicit in the very definition of Brahman which has been given. Brahman has been defined as that from which all beings are born, that by which they live, and that into which they are finally dissolved. By this definition śruti distinguishes Brahman from other beings. Whereas Brahman is devoid of origination, etc., all other beings have origination, etc. While Brahman alone is constant, all other beings are not. Śruti, therefore, emphasizes the need for discriminating the Self from the not-Self by applying the method of anvaya and vyatireka.