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 2.214
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दृष्टावाक्षिप्यमाणायां संज्ञया ह्रियमाणाया ।
मृत्युपाशेन बद्धश्च त्रातारं नोपलप्स्यसे ॥ २१४ ॥
dṛṣṭāvākṣipyamāṇāyāṃ saṃjñayā hriyamāṇāyā |
mṛtyupāśena baddhaśca trātāraṃ nopalapsyase || 214 ||
English translation of verse 2.214:
When your visual sense is snatched away, when your consciousness is captured, and when you are bound by the cord of death, you cannot find a protector.