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 2.643
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विज्ञानान्तरगम्य� तदभ्युपेयं बलादपि �
� चेद्वाक्योत्थविज्ञानग्राह्यं ब्रह्माभ्युपेयते �
नाम्नायार्थो भवेत्तर्हि नैवं वेदार्� एव � � ६४� �
vijñānāntaragamya� tadabhyupeya� balādapi |
na cedvākyotthavijñānagrāhya� brahmābhyupeyate |
nāmnāyārtho bhavettarhi naiva� ٳ eva ca || 643 ||
English translation of verse 2.643:
“We are thus compelled to admit that Brahman is comprehended by another knowledge (different from that produced by a sentence).�
Notes:
(Objection:) If it is not admitted that Brahman can be comprehended by the knowledge which arises from a sentence, then Brahman is not the subject-matter of the Veda. (The Dz徱 replies:) “It is not so. (Brahman) is assuredly the subject of Vedic teaching.�
It may be objected that the argument of the Dz徱 will lead him to say that Brahman is not the subject-matter of the Vedic teaching. The substance of the objection comes to this: if Brahman cannot be revealed by the Vedic text, then it cannot be the subject-matter of the Vedic teaching; without being 岹ٳ, Brahman cannot be ٳ. Since the Dz徱 maintains that Brahman is not 岹-ٳ, he must also maintain that Brahman is not ٳ.
The Dz徱 does not see any force in this argument. He maintains that while Brahman is ٳ, the subject-matter of Vedic teaching, it is not 岹ٳ, what is comprehended by the Vedic text. Brahman, according to him, is ٳ, because it is directly known by the knowledge which arises as a result of the repeated contemplation on the knowledge conveyed by the Vedic text (岹dzٳٳñ-ⲹ-ṣāt-ṣaṇa-jñānagamyatvāt ٳtva� brahmaṇa� siddhyati).