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 2.210
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ततोऽपि मृतिदुःखस्य दृष्टान्तो नोपलभ्यते ।
यस्माद्बिभ्यति भूतानि प्राप्तान्यपि परां रुजम् ॥ २१० ॥
tato'pi mṛtiduḥkhasya dṛṣṭānto nopalabhyate |
yasmādbibhyati bhūtāni prāptānyapi parāṃ rujam || 210 ||
English translation of verse 2.210:
There is no parallel to the pangs of death which follow it (i.e., old age). Even a creature suffering from the worst disease is afraid of it.
Notes:
Verses (210) to (212) describe the misery of death (maraṇa-duḥkha [duḥkham]).