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 2.166-168
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निजाविद्यामहाजालसंवीतधिषणः पुमान् ।
मोहोत्थानलकामाख्यबडिशापहताशयः ॥ १६६ ॥
तमसा कामशार्ङ्गेण सङ्कल्पाकर्षणेन सः ।
रागाख्यविषलेपेन ताडितो विषयेषुणा ॥ १६७ ॥
ग्रहाविष्ट इवानीशश्चोदितो जन्यकर्मणा ।
योषिदग्निं पतत्याशु ज्योतिर्लोभात्पतङ्गवत् ॥ १६८ ॥
nijāvidyāmahājālasaṃvītadhiṣaṇaḥ pumān |
mohotthānalakāmākhyabaḍiśāpahatāśayaḥ || 166 ||
tamasā kāmaśārṅgeṇa saṅkalpākarṣaṇena saḥ |
rāgākhyaviṣalepena tāḍito viṣayeṣuṇā || 167 ||
grahāviṣṭa ivānīśaścodito janyakarmaṇā |
yoṣidagniṃ patatyāśu jyotirlobhātpataṅgavat || 168 ||
English translation of verse 2.166-168:
The person whose mind is enveloped by the mighty net of the inherent avidyā, whose heart is captivated by the fish-hook of the insatiable desire which is born of non-discrimination, who is assailed by ignorance, who is struck down by the arrow of the sense-object smeared with the poison of attachment and discharged from the bow of desire, and attracted by purposeful thought, who is powerless like the one who is possessed by a demon, who, being impelled by the karma of the person that is to be born, falls in haste into the fire of woman, like a moth (which rushes into fire) covetous of its flame.