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 2.731
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विद्वानेव परं ब्रह्म आत्मनाऽऽत्मानमद्वयम् ।
न बिभेत्येकलोऽद्वन्द्वो भयहेतोरसम्भवात् ॥ ७३१ ॥
vidvāneva paraṃ brahma ātmanā''tmānamadvayam |
na bibhetyekalo'dvandvo bhayahetorasambhavāt || 731 ||
English translation of verse 2.731:
Thus the wise man knows himself by himself as the non-dual supreme Brahman. Being one only without a second, he does not fear, because there is no cause of fear.
Notes:
Duality is the cause of fear, and avidyā is the cause of duality. When avidyā is removed through the knowledge of Brahman, the knower of Brahman remains as Brahman, the fearless.