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 2.412
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्मादस्ति परं ब्रह्म यस्याविद्याप्रकल्पिताः ।
सन्तीव सत्तामालम्ब्य कार्यकारणलक्षणाः ॥ ४१२ ॥
tasmādasti paraṃ brahma yasyāvidyāprakalpitāḥ |
santīva sattāmālambya kāryakāraṇalakṣaṇāḥ || 412 ||
English translation of verse 2.412:
Hence there exists the supreme Brahman by depending upon whose existence the objects of the world, which are related as causes and effects and which are projected by avidyā, exist as it were.
Notes:
The entire world, starting from ether down to a particle of earth, which can be designated as not-Self is an illusory appearance due to avidyā. The immutable Brahman is the substratum (adhiṣṭhāna) on which the entire world is superimposed. If the things of the world appear to exist, it is because of the existence of Brahman, the substratum. So the existence of Brahman can never be denied.