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 2.394
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तद्रूपानुगमयान्नमयान्तं कार्यमाह हि ॥ ३९४ ॥
tadrūpānugamayānnamayāntaṃ kāryamāha hi || 394 ||
English translation of verse 2.394:
In order to impart that knowledge (of non-difference of Brahman and Ātman), the various modifications ending with the sheath formed of food are, indeed, stated.
Notes:
Śruti purports to convey the knowledge of the non-difference of Brahman and Ātman, and with a view to impart this knowledge it gives an account of the different sheaths starting from the ānandamaya-kośa and ending with the annamaya-kośa, which arc all modifications. Instruction about the nature of the sheaths is the means (upāya) for attaining Brahman-knowledge which is the end (upeya).