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 3.35
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आत्मता ब्रह्मणो यत्र आत्मनो ब्रह्मता तथा ।
अहं ब्रह्मेत्यवाक्यार्थमेवं वाक्यात्प्रपद्यते ॥ ३५ ॥
ātmatā brahmaṇo yatra ātmano brahmatā tathā |
ahaṃ brahmetyavākyārthamevaṃ vākyātprapadyate || 35 ||
English translation of verse 3.35:
Thus, the non-verbal knowledge wherein one sees Brahman as the Self and the Self as Brahman is obtained from the sentence, “I am Brahman.”
Notes:
The knowledge of non-difference between Brahman and Ātman cannot be obtained through perception and other pramāṇas, but only through śabda. It is from inquiry into the Vedānta texts like tat tvam asi, etc., that we obtain the non-relational, unitary knowledge (akhaṇḍārtha jñāna) of Brahman.