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 3.30
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यामेवं स शनकैर्भृगुः ।
तपसैव परं ब्रह्म विजज्ञौ प्रत्यगात्मनि ॥ ३० ॥
anvayavyatirekābhyāmevaṃ sa śanakairbhṛguḥ |
tapasaiva paraṃ brahma vijajñau pratyagātmani || 30 ||
English translation of verse 3.30:
Thus by tapas alone, i.e., by the method of anvaya and vyatireka, Bhṛgu gradually knew Brahman as the inward Self.
Notes:
The method of investigation which Bhṛgu adopted led him step by step from anna, i.e., the Virāj, to prāṇa, i.e., the Hiraṇyagarbha in His aspect of activity (kriyā-śakti), from prāṇa to manas, i.e., the Hiraṇyagarbha in His aspect of will (icchā-śakti), from manas to vijñāna, i.e., the Hiraṇyagarbha in His aspect of intelligence (jñāna-śakti), and from vijñāna, to ānanda, i.e., Brahman associated with māyā. Though he first thought of anna, prāṇa, manas, and vijñāna as Brahman, he had to revise his views as they did not satisfy the definition of Brahman. Finally, he thought of ānanda, i.e., Brahman associated with māyā as Brahman.
Verses (30) to (39) explain the sixth anuvāka of the Upaniṣad.