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 2.680
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विदितेतरातिरेकित्वाद् ब्रह्मरूपानुवादिभिः ।
नियोगगर्भवचनैः पश्येदिति विरुध्यते ॥ ६८० ॥
viditetarātirekitvād brahmarūpānuvādibhiḥ |
niyogagarbhavacanaiḥ paśyediti virudhyate || 680 ||
English translation of verse 2.680:
The view that Brahman must be known as directed by the injunctive texts is opposed to the Upanishadic texts which speak of the nature of Brahman as different from what is known and what is unknown.
Notes:
It is no argument to say that the knowledge of Brahman is enjoined by the Vedānta texts like "The Self, verily, should be seen” (Bṛhadāraṇyaka, II, iv, 5), which are in the injunctive form. Brahman, as stated in the Kena Upaniṣad (I, 4), is different from what is known and also different from what is unknown. So the argument that Brahmanknowledge falls within the scope of injunction is not sound.