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:

एवं विभज्यमानं सत्सत्यमित्येवमादिभिः ।
स्वविशेषविरुद्धेभ्यो धर्मिभ्यः स्यान्निराकृतम् ॥ ४७ ॥

evaṃ vibhajyamānaṃ satsatyamityevamādibhiḥ |
svaviśeṣaviruddhebhyo dharmibhyaḥ syānnirākṛtam || 47 ||

English translation of verse 2.47:

Being thus qualified by words such as “real”, Brahman stands distinguished from all other substances qualified by attributes opposed to its own.

Notes:

The three attributes, viz., real, knowledge, and infinite, serve to distinguish Brahman from all other things which are unreal (anṛta), insentient (acetana), and finite (paricchinna)

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