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 3.84
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मूर्तामूर्तात्मकस्यास्य ह्यन्नान्नादत्वरूपिणः ।
अतद्वानग्रजोऽहं वै न तदश्नाति हि श्रुतिः ॥ ८४ ॥
mūrtāmūrtātmakasyāsya hyannānnādatvarūpiṇaḥ |
atadvānagrajo'haṃ vai na tadaśnāti hi śrutiḥ || 84 ||
English translation of verse 3.84:
“I am the First-born (Hiraṇyagarbha) of this universe which consists of objects with form and without form and which are related as food and the eater of food, even though I am different from it.” Śruti, indeed, says, “It eats nothing whatever.”
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text ahamasmi prathamajā ṛtāsya. This is also the utterance of the knower of Brahman.
The śruti text quoted in the second line of the verse is from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (III, viii, 8).