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 2.247
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
श्रुत्यन्तराद्वा सम्प्राप्तं मोक्षादर्वाक्फलाय तु ।
तदनूद्य परं श्रेयः प्राप्तये ज्ञानमुच्यते ॥ २४७ ॥
śrutyantarādvā samprāptaṃ mokṣādarvākphalāya tu |
tadanūdya paraṃ śreyaḥ prāptaye jñānamucyate || 247 ||
English translation of verse 2.247:
Or, by re-stating the meditation which is intended for securing fruits inferior to mokṣa as known from another śruti text, the knowledge (of Brahman-Ātman) is spoken of (here in the Taittirīya) for attaining the highest good.
Notes:
This verse explains the purport of the teaching of meditation on food, etc., as Brahman in yet another way. Meditation on the Virāj and the Sūtrātman has been taught in the first chapter of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka. Such a meditation gives rise to fruits inferior to mokṣa, the highest good. When the Taittirīya speaks about meditation on food, etc., as Brahman, it is only re-stating what is already known from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka. But its main aim is to impart the knowledge of the Self as the means of attaining mokṣa which is the highest good.