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 2.40
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
करोमीति धिया चेत्तद्ब्रह्मास्मीति हि लभ्यते ।
ब्रूतालाभेऽस्य को हेतुर्न ह्यतोऽन्योऽस्त्यदर्शनात् ॥ ४० ॥
karomīti dhiyā cettadbrahmāsmīti hi labhyate |
brūtālābhe'sya ko heturna hyato'nyo'styadarśanāt || 40 ||
English translation of verse 2.40:
If it were the case that a person who has the notion “I am the agent” should attain the realization to the effect “I am this Brahman,” pray tell, what is the cause of its non-attainment? There is, indeed, no other cause than ignorance.
Notes:
It is impossible to realize the Self which is neither an agent nor an enjoyer by knowing it as an agent and an enjoyer in the real sense. Consider the case of a person who looks upon the Self all the time, excepting when he is in the state of deep sleep, as an agent and an enjoyer. In spite of the fact that he has such a knowledge all the time except in the state of deep sleep, he has not realized Brahman. There is no other cause for his non-realization than his ignorance of the true nature of the Self as devoid of agency, etc.