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 2.538
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सत्यं ज्ञानमिति ह्यस्मादसत्याद्यर्थवारणात् ।
भेदाश्रयस्य व्यावृत्तेरैक्यं स्वात्मरविस्थयोः ॥ ५३८ ॥
satyaṃ jñānamiti hyasmādasatyādyarthavāraṇāt |
bhedāśrayasya vyāvṛtteraikyaṃ svātmaravisthayoḥ || 538 ||
English translation of verse 2.538:
Since from the text which defines Brahman as real and knowledge, the unreal, etc., get negated and since avidyā also, which is the ground of all distinctions is removed, the oneness (of Brahman-Ātman) inherent in the jīva and in the sun (is established).
Notes:
This verse reiterates the non-dual nature of the ultimate reality as conveyed by the śruti text sa ekaḥ.