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The ‘Commentary’ on the Taittiriyopanisad is ‘the exposition of the teaching of the Taittiriyopanisad‘. It is to be seen that almost all Upanishads propound the unity of the Self with Brahman in two ways, firstly by negation and secondly by the mode of indicative descriptions. Both these methods are to be met with in the Taittiriyopanisad. Indeed this Upanisad is the fountainhead for both methods which converge to the same point in the famous declaration: ‘brahmavidapnoti param‘ (the knower of Brahman attains the supreme).
What Vidyaranya has accomplished in this independent work is best described as a ‘meta-commentary’, being not a mere gloss on the existing commentary, but an independent exercise in interpretation of the Upanisads themselves guided at every step by the turns in the commentary of Sankaracarya. In sum it may be viewed as the medieval counterpart of modern academic interpretations of Upanisads vis-a-vis exegesis of Sankaracarya.
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