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 2.285
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मिथ्यात्मनां हि सर्वेषां सत्यादिगुणलक्षणम् ।
व्याविद्धाशेषसंसारमात्मानं तं प्रचक्ष्महे ॥ २८५ ॥
mithyātmanāṃ hi sarveṣāṃ satyādiguṇalakṣaṇam |
vyāviddhāśeṣasaṃsāramātmānaṃ taṃ pracakṣmahe || 285 ||
English translation of verse 2.285:
All (the five sheaths) being illusory, we consider that which has been defined as real, etc., and which is free from all transmigratory existence as the Self.
Notes:
All the five sheaths are effects and as stated in the vācārambhaṇa text of the Chāndogya (VI, i, 4), all effects which exist only in name are illusory. So none of the sheaths can be designated as the Self in the primary sense of the term. If any of them is looked upon as the Self, it is a case of false self-identification due to avidyā.