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 3.34
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
युष्मदस्मद्विभागोऽयं यत्र व्यावर्ततेऽञ्जसा ।
स आत्मा तत्परं व्योम तत्र विद्या प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ३४ ॥
yuṣmadasmadvibhāgo'yaṃ yatra vyāvartate'ñjasā |
sa ātmā tatparaṃ vyoma tatra vidyā pratiṣṭhitā || 34 ||
English translation of verse 3.34:
The supreme Space is the Self wherein all distinctions of “you” and “I” straight away disappear; therein this knowledge is firmly established.
Notes:
It may appear that Bhṛgu’s inquiry has not taken him as far as the supreme Brahman which is neither cause nor effect, but only upto ānanda, i.e., Brahman associated with māyā, which is the cause of the universe. But strictly speaking his inquiry has culminated in the non-dual Brahman which is neither cause nor effect (kārya-kāraṇa-vilakṣaṇa). The word vyoma which occurs in the śruti text refers to the supreme Brahman which is non-dual. That is why it is said that the knowledge learnt by Bhṛgu and taught by Varuṇa is firmly established in the supreme Space, the non-dual Brahman.