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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

स्वतो बुद्धं स्वतः शुद्धं स्वतो मुक्तं यथोदितम् ।
वेदैवं यः स्वमात्मानं फलं तस्येदृशं स्मृतम् ॥ ७४७ ॥

svato buddhaṃ svataḥ śuddhaṃ svato muktaṃ yathoditam |
vedaivaṃ yaḥ svamātmānaṃ phalaṃ tasyedṛśaṃ smṛtam || 747 ||

English translation of verse 2.747:

It is said that such a fruit accrues to him who knows his own Self described in this way as consciousness, pure, and free, by its very nature.

Notes:

The meaning of the śruti text ya evaṃ veda is explained in this verse.

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