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 2.22
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
साध्यसाधनवद्वाक्यं तद्विरुद्धार्थसिद्धये ।
प्राह ब्रह्मविदाप्नोति श्रुतिः प्रत्यक्प्रवेशिनी ॥ २२ ॥
sādhyasādhanavadvākyaṃ tadviruddhārthasiddhaye |
prāha brahmavidāpnoti śrutiḥ pratyakpraveśinī || 22 ||
English translation of verse 2.22:
By way of leading (the aspirant) towards the inward Self, Scripture utters the means-end-statement, “The knower of Brahman attains the highest,” with a view to the attainment of what is quite the contrary.
Notes:
The śruti text brahmavid āpnoti param states aphoristically both the means and the end. It says that knowledge is the means to liberation which is the end. Though means-end relation is not applicable to mokṣa which is eternal, Scripture adopts this procedure as a methodological device with a view to initiate the spiritual aspirant into Brahman-knowledge.