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 2.61
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ज्ञानं ब्रह्मेति वचनादन्तवत्त्वमवाप तत् ।
ज्ञानस्य लोकिकस्येह ह्यन्तवत्त्वसमन्वयात् ॥ ६१ ॥
jñānaṃ brahmeti vacanādantavattvamavāpa tat |
jñānasya lokikasyeha hyantavattvasamanvayāt || 61 ||
English translation of verse 2.61:
From the expression, “Brahman is knowledge,” it (i.e., Brahman) may be thought of as finite, because empirical knowledge is, indeed, associated with finitude.
Notes:
Empirical knowledge is momentary (kṣaṇika) and therefore limited. If Brahman is said to be of the nature of knowledge, it will follow, it may be argued, that it is finite.