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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:

पञ्चमोऽत्र निरुक्तः स्यात्पारिशेष्यात्फलात्मकः �
अत्यानन्दमयं ब्रह्म त्वनिरुक्त� पर� पदम् � ४४� �

pañcamo'tra nirukta� syātpāriśeṣyātphalātmaka� |
ٲԲԻ岹ⲹ� brahma ٱԾܰٲ� 貹� padam || 447 ||

English translation of verse 2.447:

The word nirukta here stands for the fifth sheath (viz., the ԲԻ岹ⲹ-ś), the enjoyer of the fruit (of ܱ and karma), because it is what is left over. Brahman, the supreme goal, which transcends the ԲԻ岹ⲹ, is aniruktam.

Notes:

Of the five sheaths, ṛśy stands for the ԲԲⲹ-ś, ātmya for the next three ś and nirukta for the ԲԻ岹ⲹ-ś, the ī who is the semblance of the pure consciousness.

The word anirukta refers by implication to the pure consciousness which is beyond cause and effect and which is implied by the word “Thou� (-kārana-vinirmukta� tvaṃpada-lakṣyam cinmātramanirukta-ś岹-峦ⲹ).

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