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 1.73
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विचक्षणं च मे भूयाच्छरीरं देव सर्वदा ।
मनःप्रह्लादिनी मे स्याज्जिह्वा मधुरभाषिणी ॥ ७३ ॥
vicakṣaṇaṃ ca me bhūyāccharīraṃ deva sarvadā |
manaḥprahlādinī me syājjihvā madhurabhāṣiṇī || 73 ||
English translation of verse 1.73:
And also, O Lord, may my body be fit always. May my tongue utter what is sweet and what makes the mind happy.
Notes:
In this verse and in the next one, the prayer is for physical fitness which is necessary for the practice of the hearing of the text (śravaṇa), reflection (manana), etc.