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 2.458
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अथाधुना यथाऽविद्वान्प्रेत्य नैति परं पदम् ।
व्याख्यायते तथा स्पष्टं यदा हीत्येवमाद्यया ॥ ४५८ ॥
athādhunā yathā'vidvānpretya naiti paraṃ padam |
vyākhyāyate tathā spaṣṭaṃ yadā hītyevamādyayā || 458 ||
English translation of verse 2.458:
That an ignorant person, having departed from this world, does not attain the highest goal is now explained clearly by the text beginning with yadā hi.
Notes:
After establishing that the man of wisdom attains the supreme Brahman, śruti now proceeds to show that an ignorant man does not attain Brahman. This is the purport of the śruti passage beginning with yadā hyevaiṣa etasminnudaramantaraṃ kurute, etc.