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 2.430
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अज्ञातानन्दतत्त्वानामनुमानमिदं भवेत् ।
साक्षात्कृतात्मतत्त्वानां प्रत्यक्षतममेव तत् ॥ ४३० ॥
ajñātānandatattvānāmanumānamidaṃ bhavet |
sākṣātkṛtātmatattvānāṃ pratyakṣatamameva tat || 430 ||
English translation of verse 2.430:
This inference (about the experience of bliss) is intended only for those who are ignorant of the true nature of bliss. But, for those who have realized the true nature of the Self, it is, indeed, the most immediate experience.
Notes:
Happiness which human beings seek to attain as an end (puruṣārtha) is a matter of immediate experience. If its existence is going to be established by means of inference, it will, it may be argued, cease to be a puruṣārtha.
This objection will not do, as it has not taken into consideration the purpose of inference here. If we resort to inference with a view to establish the experience of bliss from certain outward features, it is only for the sake of the ignorant people. From the standpoint of the wise, i.e., those who have realized the true nature of the Self, there is no need for inference, for bliss which is Brahman is immediately experienced by them.