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 1.122
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मनोगीश्चक्षुषां चैव श्रोत्रविज्ञानयोरपि ।
आप्नोति पर्युपासीनः स्वाराज्यं नात्र संशयः ।
तत एतत्फलं दिव्यं यथोक्तोपासनाद्भवेत् ॥ १२२ ॥
manogīścakṣuṣāṃ caiva śrotravijñānayorapi |
āpnoti paryupāsīnaḥ svārājyaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ |
tata etatphalaṃ divyaṃ yathoktopāsanādbhavet || 122 ||
English translation of verse 1.122:
The meditator attains sovereignty over the mind, speech, and sight, and also over ear and intellect. There is no doubt about this. This divine fruit will accrue from the aforesaid meditation.
Notes:
Before he resorted to this meditation, he was the lord of the mind, speech, and other senses of an individual organism. When as a result of the meditation enjoined here he attains to the state of the Virāj and becomes all-pervasive, the self of all, he becomes the lord of the mind, speech, etc., of all beings.