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 3.37
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ब्रह्म पुच्छं प्रतिष्ठेति वल्ल्योक्तं पूर्वया तु यत् ।
तस्यामेव प्रतिष्ठायां विद्वान्सम्प्रतितिष्ठति ॥ ३७ ॥
brahma pucchaṃ pratiṣṭheti vallyoktaṃ pūrvayā tu yat |
tasyāmeva pratiṣṭhāyāṃ vidvānsampratitiṣṭhati || 37 ||
English translation of verse 3.37:
The knower of Brahman is firmly established in that abode alone which has been spoken of by the earlier Vallī as “Brahman, the tail, which is the support.”
Notes:
In the Bramavallī there is the text brahma puccham-pratiṣṭhā, wherein Brahman is referred to as the tail which is the support. The idea is that the non-dual Brahman is the support of all duality which is superimposed on it due to ignorance. The same idea is brought out once again in the text ya evaṃ veda pratitiṣṭhati. The practice of tapas enables one to get established in Brahman.