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 2.311
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
योगो युक्तिः समाधानमात्मा स्यात्तदुपाश्रयात् ।
श्रद्धादीनि यथोऽक्तार्थप्रतिपत्तिक्षमाणि च ॥ ३११ ॥
yogo yuktiḥ samādhānamātmā syāttadupāśrayāt |
śraddhādīni yatho'ktārthapratipattikṣamāṇi ca || 311 ||
English translation of verse 2.311:
Yoga, which means concentration, composure, is the seif, the central part of the body. By depending on it, śraddhā, etc., become fit for the acquisition of the knowledge of the real as stated.
Notes:
Of the vijñānamaya-kośa, faith is said to be the head; righteousness (ṛtam) is the right wing; truth (satyam) is the left wing; concentration (yoga) is the self; mahat is the tail, the support.
The meanings of the words ṛtam and satyam have already been explained in verses (46) and (47) of the Śīkṣāvallī.
The meaning of the word yoga, which is said to be the self of the vijñānamaya-kośa, is explained in this verse.