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 2.480
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यथोक्तबोधविरहादीश्वराणामपीश्वराः ।
प्रतीचो ब्रह्मणो भीताः स्वकर्माणि प्रकुर्वते ॥ ४८० ॥
yathoktabodhavirahādīśvarāṇāmapīśvarāḥ |
pratīco brahmaṇo bhītāḥ svakarmāṇi prakurvate || 480 ||
English translation of verse 2.480:
For want of the knowledge (of non-difference) as stated above, even the lords of lords (such as Agni) do their respective works, afraid of Brahman, the inward Self.
Notes:
The eighth anuvāka of the Upaniṣad is covered be verses (480) to (594).
With a view to reiterate the teaching of the Brāhmaṇa portion, viz., that there is fear for him who sees Brahman as different from the Self, there is a verse bhīṣā'smādvātaḥ pavate, etc., at the commencement of the eighth anuvāka. It says: “Out of fear towards Him, the Wind blows. Out of fear the Sun rises. Out of fear towards Him runs Fire, as also Indra and Death, the fifth.”