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 2.425
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तृप्तिहेतू रसो नाम मधुराम्लादिलक्षणः ॥ ४२५ ॥
tṛptihetū raso nāma madhurāmlādilakṣaṇaḥ || 425 ||
English translation of verse 2.425:
Rasa in the form of sweetness, sourness, and so on, is the cause of satisfaction.
Notes:
The word rasa primarily means flavour, distinctive taste such as sweetness, sourness, and the like.