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 2.655
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
बुद्धेः स्यादपराधोऽयं यद्बाह्यार्थानुकारिता ।
प्रत्यक्त्वं चिन्निभत्वं च कौटस्थ्यान्नायमात्मनि ॥ ६५५ ॥
buddheḥ syādaparādho'yaṃ yadbāhyārthānukāritā |
pratyaktvaṃ cinnibhatvaṃ ca kauṭasthyānnāyamātmani || 655 ||
English translation of verse 2.655:
All this is the fault of the intellect—that it assumes the forms of external objects, that it appears as the inward Self and as consciousness. This (change of forms) cannot take place in the Self, because it is immutable.
Notes:
This verse refutes the view that the Self is the knower (jñātā). The internal organ, which undergoes modifications is the knower due to the semblance of consciousness in it.