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 2.149
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अनादिमध्यनिधनाविद्यासन्दूषितात्मनः ।
ब्रह्मणो जायते व्योम तिमिरादिव चन्द्रमाः ॥ १४९ ॥
anādimadhyanidhanāvidyāsandūṣitātmanaḥ |
brahmaṇo jāyate vyoma timirādiva candramāḥ || 149 ||
English translation of verse 2.149:
From Brahman-Ātman which has neither a beginning nor a middle nor an end, and which is concealed by avidyā, ether comes into existence, like the (double) moon arising from the eye-disease.
Notes:
But for the eye-disease (timira-doṣa) there is no cognition of the moon as double. Similarly, but for the association of avidyā, the principle of obscuration, with Brahman, there is no creation of the world.