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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

एवं सत्यादयः शब्दाः स्वार्थासन्त्यागिनः परम् ।
लक्षयन्ति विरुद्धार्थनिवृत्त्याऽज्ञानहानतः ॥ ९८ ॥

evaṃ satyādayaḥ śabdāḥ svārthāsantyāginaḥ param |
lakṣayanti viruddhārthanivṛttyā'jñānahānataḥ || 98 ||

English translation of verse 2.98:

Thus, words like “real”, etc., without abandoning their own meanings indicate by implication the supreme Brahman by eliminating what is opposed to it through the destruction of ignorance.

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