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 2.314
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
परमेव हि तद्ब्रह्म बुद्धिकञ्चुकभृत्स्वयम् ।
घटादाविव विज्ञप्तौ धीरात्मानं ततोऽर्पयेत् ॥ ३१४ ॥
parameva hi tadbrahma buddhikañcukabhṛtsvayam |
ghaṭādāviva vijñaptau dhīrātmānaṃ tato'rpayet || 314 ||
English translation of verse 2.314:
It is, indeed, the supreme Brahman alone which has put on the garment of the intellect of its own accord. As in the case of pot and other objects, the intellect, then, should place itself in Brahman which is consciousness.
Notes:
Brahman that is referred to here is the supreme Brahman as conditioned by the intellect (buddhyuparaktabrahma). The intellect illumines pot and other objects by assuming their form, by becoming one with them. In the same way, it causes the knowledge of Brahman by assuming the undifferentiated form of consciousness which is Brahman.