Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara鈥檚 Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara鈥檚 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 2.607
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
啶呧さ啶苦う啷嵿く啶距啶距い啶苦え啶� 啶多が啷嵿う啶距う啶灌 啶啶班す啷嵿ぎ啷囙い啶� 啶о啶班啶さ啷囙い啷� 啷�
啶ㄠざ啷嵿く啶む啶さ啶苦う啷嵿く啶ぞ 啶膏ぞ啶班啶о 啶灌い啷嵿さ啶� 啶班啶椸ぎ啶苦さ啷屶し啶оぎ啷� 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�
avidy膩gh膩tina岣� 艣abd膩daha峁� brahmeti dh墨rbhavet |
na艣yatyavidyay膩 s膩rdha峁� hatv膩 rogamivau峁dham || 607 ||
English translation of verse 2.607:
From the (scriptural) utterance there arises the cognition, 鈥淚 am Brahman,鈥� which destroys ignorance. This cognition disappears along with ignorance after destroying it, in the same way as the medicine disappears after destroying the disease.
Notes:
The unitary, non-relational, cognition through the mental 峁僶de (补办丑补峁囜笉腻办腻谤补-惫峁泃迟颈-箩帽腻苍补) generated by the 艣谤耻迟颈 text removes ignorance. The question that arises here is whether the unitary, non-relational, cognition continue; to exist after removing ignorance. If it exists, what is It that removes it? If it cannot be removed, it will undermine nondualism, because it has to be reckoned as an entity in addition to Brahman.
According to Advaita, none of these difficulties arise. Only if the 补办丑补峁囜笉腻办腻谤补-惫峁泃迟颈-箩帽腻苍补 persists after removing ignorance, the standpoint of non-dualism will be at stake, as in addition to Brahman there is this final 惫峁泃迟颈j帽膩na. But it disappears after destroying ignorance, in the same way as a medicinal drug gets itself removed after destroying the disease.