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 2.321
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विज्ञानमयशब्देन कर्ता व्याख्यायि पूर्वया ।
तस्य प्रत्यक्तया चाथ श्रुत्या भोक्तोच्यतेऽधुना ॥ ३२१ ॥
vijñānamayaśabdena kartā vyākhyāyi pūrvayā |
tasya pratyaktayā cātha śrutyā bhoktocyate'dhunā || 321 ||
English translation of verse 2.321:
By the expression vijñānamaya, the self as the agent was described by the earlier śruti text. And now by the self which is inward to it, the enjoyer is spoken of by the śruti text.
Notes:
The Self as identified with the vijñāna has been explained earlier as the agent (kartā). Vijñāna is the particular state of the internal organ formed of the cognizing principle and the guṇa of rajas. Identifying the Self with the vijñāna, a person thinks, “I am the agent.” That is, he thinks of the Self as the agent. It is with a view to remove the notion of agency from the Self that the śruti text beginning from anyo'ntara ātmā ānandamayaḥ gives an account of the ānandamaya-kośa, which is inward to the vijñānamaya-kośa, in its aspect as the enjoyer.