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 2.353
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सदप्यात्मस्वरूपेण ब्रह्मासदिति वेद चेत् ।
सोऽसन्नेवेह भवति कोशात्मत्वाभिमानभाक् ॥ ३५३ ॥
sadapyātmasvarūpeṇa brahmāsaditi veda cet |
so'sanneveha bhavati kośātmatvābhimānabhāk || 353 ||
English translation of verse 2.353:
If a person who identifies himself with the sheaths thinks that Brahman is non-existent, even though it exists in the form of the Self, he surely becomes non-existent here (in this world).
Notes:
One who knows Brahman as other than the sheaths does really exist; but one who identifies himself with the sheaths and thinks that there is no such thing as Brahman other than the sheaths does not really exist.