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 3.26
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्नं ब्रह्मेति विज्ञाय कार्यत्वं तस्य वीक्ष्य सः ।
संशयोच्छित्तये भूयो गत्वाऽपृच्छद् गुरुं भृगुः ॥ २६ ॥
annaṃ brahmeti vijñāya kāryatvaṃ tasya vīkṣya saḥ |
saṃśayocchittaye bhūyo gatvā'pṛcchad guruṃ bhṛguḥ || 26 ||
English translation of verse 3.26:
Having known food as Brahman and also having understood that (food) as effect, Bhṛgu once again with a view to remove his doubt went to his teacher and asked.
Notes:
Though at the beginning Bhṛgu thought that food must be Brahman as it had all the features enumerated in the definition, he soon found out that it could not be Brahman as it was also an effect of something else. So once again Bhṛgu went to his teacher, Varuṇa, in order to clear his doubt.