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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

उत्कृष्टिर्वाऽपकृष्टिर्वा नेह स्वात्मनि विद्यते ।
तमोपहतदृष्टीनामुत्कर्षेतरवीक्षणम् ॥ ५३५ ॥

utkṛṣṭirvā'pakṛṣṭirvā neha svātmani vidyate |
tamopahatadṛṣṭīnāmutkarṣetaravīkṣaṇam || 535 ||

English translation of verse 2.535:

Neither superiority nor inferiority exists here in one’s own Self. Those whose vision is affected by ignorance see superiority and inferiority (in the Self).

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