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 2.360
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उक्तं ब्रह्मविदाप्नोति परं नाज्ञोऽसदाश्रयः ।
इत्यस्य निर्णयार्थाय परो ग्रन्थोऽवतार्यते ॥ ३६० ॥
uktaṃ brahmavidāpnoti paraṃ nājño'sadāśrayaḥ |
ityasya nirṇayārthāya paro grantho'vatāryate || 360 ||
English translation of verse 2.360:
The following portion (of the Upaniṣad) is begun with a view to establish what was said earlier, viz., that the knower of Brahman attains the highest, but not the ignorant man who resorts to the non-existent.
Notes:
This verse explains the purport of the discussion which follows in the sequel beginning from the śruti text athāto'nupraśnāḥ.