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 2.521
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अथेदानीं परीक्षाया अद्वैतानन्दलक्षणम् ।
उपसंह्रियते साक्षात्फलं साधननिस्पृहम् ॥ ५२१ ॥
athedānīṃ parīkṣāyā advaitānandalakṣaṇam |
upasaṃhriyate sākṣātphalaṃ sādhananispṛham || 521 ||
English translation of verse 2.521:
Now the conclusion of the inquiry (into bliss) is that Brahman, which is non-dual bliss and which is independent of all means, is what is directly realized (as identical with our immediate Self).
Notes:
The substance of the three śruti texts sa yaścāyaṃ puruṣe, yaścāsāvāditye, sa ekaḥ is stated in this verse.
The inquiry into the nature of happiness and its different gradations, which was commenced from the śruti text saiṣā ānandasya mīmāṃsā bhavati, has enabled us to conclude that the infinite, unsurpassable, non-dual bliss which is Brahman exists. And this Brahman is sākṣātphala [sākṣātphalam], what is directly realized, because it is identical with our inward Self.