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 2.575
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अविद्यामात्रहेतौ तु सर्वमेतत्समञ्जसम् ।
तस्यामसत्यां तन्न स्यात्सत्यामेव हि भीर्यतः ॥ ५७५ ॥
avidyāmātrahetau tu sarvametatsamañjasam |
tasyāmasatyāṃ tanna syātsatyāmeva hi bhīryataḥ || 575 ||
English translation of verse 2.575:
But if it is said that fear is caused only by avidyā, all this can be easily explained. When there is no avidyā, there is no fear, for fear arises, indeed, only when there is avidyā.
Notes:
This verse emphasizes once again the soundness of the standpoint of non-duality as stated in verse (572).