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 3.80
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
द्वेधा भिन्नमिदं सर्वमन्नमन्नाद एव च ।
सत्यादृश्यादिरूपात्मा अहमेवैतदीक्ष्यताम् ॥ ८० ॥
dvedhā bhinnamidaṃ sarvamannamannāda eva ca |
satyādṛśyādirūpātmā ahamevaitadīkṣyatām || 80 ||
English translation of verse 3.80:
This entire (world) is divided twofold as food and the eater of food. (The wise man says:) “Let it be understood that I, who am the Self, which is real, imperceptible, etc. am myself this world (in the twofold form).”
Notes:
This verse explains the śruti texts ahamannam ahamannādaḥ