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 3.76
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सङ्क्रम्य विद्यया सर्वानविद्योत्थाननात्मनः ।
आत्मनाऽऽत्मानमापन्नः सत्यादृश्यादिलक्षणम् ॥ ७६ ॥
saṅkramya vidyayā sarvānavidyotthānanātmanaḥ |
ātmanā''tmānamāpannaḥ satyādṛśyādilakṣaṇam || 76 ||
English translation of verse 3.76:
By realizing, through knowledge, the (unreality of the) entire not-Self set up by avidyā, the knower of Brahman attains the Self, which is real, invisible, etc., by himself.
Notes:
The substance of the śruti passage beginning from sa ya evaṃvit, asmāllokāt pretya, etamannamayamātmānam-upsaṅkramya till etamānanda-mayamātmānam-upasaṅkramya is stated in this verse. See verses (589) to (592) of the Brahmavallī for meaning of saṅkramaṇa.