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 2.597
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्माल्लक्षणवाचीनि सत्यादीनि पुराऽब्रवम् ।
विशेषणविशेष्याणां निषेधात्कोशशायिनाम् ।
निर्ममं निरहङ्कारं ब्रह्मैवाऽऽत्मेत्युपास्महे ॥ ५९७ ॥
tasmāllakṣaṇavācīni satyādīni purā'bravam |
viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyāṇāṃ niṣedhātkośaśāyinām |
nirmamaṃ nirahaṅkāraṃ brahmaivā''tmetyupāsmahe || 597 ||
English translation of verse 2.597:
I have, therefore, said before that the words “real,” etc., state the definition of Brahman by denying the applicability to it of substantives and attributes, which are applicable to the (five) sheaths.
Notes:
Substance, quality, and other categories can be denoted by words. All of them are not-Self. Brahman which is nirviśeṣa cannot be designated by words. Even the words satyam, jñānam, and anantam indicate Brahman only by implication, and not directly.