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 2.405
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
साक्षात्परोक्षरूपे तु मूर्तामूर्ते पुरोदिते ।
निरुक्तेतररूपे ये तयोरेव विशेषणे ॥ ४०५ ॥
sākṣātparokṣarūpe tu mūrtāmūrte purodite |
niruktetararūpe ye tayoreva viśeṣaṇe || 405 ||
English translation of verse 2.405:
The definable and its opposite are only attributes respectively of the gross form which is immediate and the subtle form which is mediate, mentioned above.
Notes:
Earth, water, and fire which are referred to by the term sat are directly perceived. The other two elements, viz., air and ether, which are referred to by the term tyat can be known only mediately.