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 2.408
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मृगतृष्णादिवन्मिथ्या तदिहानृतमुच्यते ।
इत्येतदभवत्स्रष्टा ह्यविद्योत्थमविद्यया ॥ ४०८ ॥
mṛgatṛṣṇādivanmithyā tadihānṛtamucyate |
ityetadabhavatsraṣṭā hyavidyotthamavidyayā || 408 ||
English translation of verse 2.408:
What is illusory like mirage is stated here as anṛtam. The Creator, indeed, became through avidyā all this which has sprung from avidyā.
Notes:
Brahman, the absolutely real, has become through avidyā the world of name and form—what is gross as well as subtle, what is definable as well as (indefinable, what serves as an abode as well as what is not an abode. The non-dual Brahman is the basis for the pluralistic universe which is superimposed thereon.