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 2.224
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
इत्याद्या विक्रियाः सर्वा लिङ्गदेहसमाश्रयाः ।
अतद्वानपि संमोहात्तद्वानित्यभिमन्यते ॥ २२४ ॥
ityādyā vikriyāḥ sarvā liṅgadehasamāśrayāḥ |
atadvānapi saṃmohāttadvānityabhimanyate || 224 ||
English translation of verse 2.224:
All the transformations from the beginning (of life in the womb stated above) belong to the subtle and gross bodies. Though they are not of the Self, it is thought due to ignorance that they are of the Self.
Notes:
The Self must be differentiated from the not-Self. The difference between the Self on the one hand and the subtle and gross bodies on the other is brought out in this verse.
The pure Self is free from all changes such as the dwelling in the womb (garbha-vāsādyā vikriyāḥ) which have been stated at length earlier. These changes belong to the liṅga-śarīra and the sthūla-śarīra, and not to the Self. Without discriminating the Self from the subtle and gross bodies a person, due to ignorance, associates these changes with the Self which is immutable.