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 2.123
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आदावन्ते तथा मध्ये धियोऽनेकशरीरगाः ।
निर्विशेषैकचिद्व्याप्ता ह्यनन्यानुभवात्मना ॥ १२३ ॥
ādāvante tathā madhye dhiyo'nekaśarīragāḥ |
nirviśeṣaikacidvyāptā hyananyānubhavātmanā || 123 ||
English translation of verse 2.123:
The mental modes which assume different forms are, indeed, pervaded at the beginning and end, and also in the middle, by the one undifferentiated consciousness which experiences none separate from it.
Notes:
First of all, a person knows a thine; (jānāti). then desires it (icchati), and finally endeavours to attain it (yatate). Though the mental modes thus appear in many forms, the Witness-consciousness which illumines them remains the same.