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 1.134
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आध्यात्मिकेन पाङ्क्तेन सङ्ख्यासामान्यकारणात् ।
बलयत्यात्मभावेन पाङ्क्तं बाह्यमशेषतः ॥ १३४ ॥
ādhyātmikena pāṅktena saṅkhyāsāmānyakāraṇāt |
balayatyātmabhāvena pāṅktaṃ bāhyamaśeṣataḥ || 134 ||
English translation of verse 1.134:
Because of the similarity in number, by the groups of five objects in respect of the seif, the meditator strengthens the entire external groups of five objects as identical.
Notes:
The general rule of meditation is that the lower or the inferior object must be meditated upon as the higher or the superior. Tn the Vyāhṛtyupāsanā, what is lower, viz., the Vyāḥṛti called Maha must be meditated upon as the higher, viz., Brahman. Likewise, the three groups of five objects coming under adhyātmā must be meditated upon as the three groups of five coming under adhibhūta; that is, the lower individual factors must be looked upon as identical with the higher cosmic factors.