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 2.511
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तुल्ये आब्रह्मणः पूर्वे उत्कर्षस्तूत्तरस्य च ।
अकामहततैवातः पूर्वाभ्यां साधनं परम् ॥ ५११ ॥
tulye ābrahmaṇaḥ pūrve utkarṣastūttarasya ca |
akāmahatataivātaḥ pūrvābhyāṃ sādhanaṃ param || 511 ||
English translation of verse 2.511:
The first two (factors) are common to all stages upto Brahmā, but the third rises higher and higher. So desire-lessness alone is the superior means when compared with the other two.