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 1.92
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उपासनमथेदानीं व्याहृत्यात्मन उच्यते ।
स्वाराज्यफलसिद्ध्यर्थं महिमाऽतोऽस्य कीर्त्यते ॥ ९२ ॥
upāsanamathedānīṃ vyāhṛtyātmana ucyate |
svārājyaphalasiddhyarthaṃ mahimā'to'sya kīrtyate || 92 ||
English translation of verse 1.92:
Then, meditation on Brahman as identified with the Vyāhṛtis is now expounded for attaining the fruit of selfsovereignty. Hence its glory is praised.
Notes:
From this verse on, meditation on the Vyāhṛtis as taught in the fifth anuvāka of the Upaniṣad is taken up for explanation. The Vyāhṛtis form a theme for internal meditation (antarupāsana). Bhūḥ, Bhuvaḥ, Suvaḥ, etc., which stand for the respective worlds are called the Vyāhṛtis. It will not be possible for the spiritual aspirant to comprehend Brahman if it is taught straightaway by ignoring the Vyāhṛtis. The Upaniṣad, therefore, proceeds to teach internal meditation on Brahman embodied in the Vyāhṛtis as Hiraṇyagarbha.