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 3.68
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अविद्योत्थं द्वयाभासं भोज्यभोक्तृत्वलक्षणम् ।
यत्र हि द्वैतमित्याद्या श्रुतिर्नः प्रत्यपीपदत् ॥ ६८ ॥
avidyotthaṃ dvayābhāsaṃ bhojyabhoktṛtvalakṣaṇam |
yatra hi dvaitamityādyā śrutirnaḥ pratyapīpadat || 68 ||
English translation of verse 3.68:
Śruti texts like “Where there is duality (as it were)” etc., have conveyed to us that the semblance of duality in the form of enjoyment and enjoyership is caused by avidyā.
Notes:
The śruti text quoted in the second line of the verse is from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, II, iv, 14.