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 2.724
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यतोऽविद्यातिरेकेण प्रतिबन्धो न विद्यते ।
तन्नाशानन्तरां मुक्तिं विद्वानिति ततोऽवदत् ॥ ७२४ ॥
yato'vidyātirekeṇa pratibandho na vidyate |
tannāśānantarāṃ muktiṃ vidvāniti tato'vadat || 724 ||
English translation of verse 2.724:
Since there is no other obstacle (to liberation) except ignorance, śruti says that the knower of Brahman attains liberation, immediately after the destruction of ignorance.
Notes:
The attainment of liberation (mokṣa) is coeval with the rise of knowledge. The only obstacle that stands in the way of attaining mokṣa is avidyā. Since the rise of knowledge does not take place without removing avidyā, the attainment of liberation is simultaneous with the rise of knowledge.