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 2.416
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नामरूपात्मकं कार्यमनात्मत्वात्स्वतो ह्यसत् ।
यत्सदेकं परं ब्रह्म ततो वै सदजायत ॥ ४१६ ॥
nāmarūpātmakaṃ kāryamanātmatvātsvato hyasat |
yatsadekaṃ paraṃ brahma tato vai sadajāyata || 416 ||
English translation of verse 2.416:
The world which is an effect composed of names and forms is in itself non-existent, because it is not-Self. It is from the one supreme Brahman which is existence that the manifested world was, indeed, born.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the text tato vai sadajāyata.
The world of name and form, as stated in the vācārambhaṇa text of the Chāndogya (VI, i, 4), is illusory and does not exist on its own. But it appears to have come into being and to be an existent something. The world which is not-Self has no existence of its own apart from the non-dual Brahman which has been defined as satyam, jñānam, and anantam.