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 2.727-728
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निर्धूतपदवाक्यार्थमित्येवं प्रतिपत्तये ।
यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते इत्येवं वचनं श्रुतेः ॥ ७२७ ॥
तथा मनोविकल्पानां निषेधाय परात्मनि ।
धिया सहेत्यतो वक्ति श्रुतिर्याथात्म्यबोधिनी ॥ ७२८ ॥
nirdhūtapadavākyārthamityevaṃ pratipattaye |
yato vāco nivartante ityevaṃ vacanaṃ śruteḥ || 727 ||
tathā manovikalpānāṃ niṣedhāya parātmani |
dhiyā sahetyato vakti śrutiryāthātmyabodhinī || 728 ||
English translation of verse 2.727-728:
In order to make us understand that Brahman cannot be denoted by a word or a sentence (directly), there is the declaration of śruti, “That from which all words return.” In the same way, śruti which teaches the truth says “along with the mind” with a view to deny differentiating cognition through the mental mode in respect of the supreme Self.