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 1.137
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ओमित्येतच्छब्दरूपं ब्रह्मेति मनसा सदा ।
धारयेत्स्तुतये तस्य परो ग्रन्थोऽवतार्यते ॥ १३७ ॥
omityetacchabdarūpaṃ brahmeti manasā sadā |
dhārayetstutaye tasya paro grantho'vatāryate || 137 ||
English translation of verse 1.137:
The sound Om has always to be held in mind as Brahman. The subsequent passage is commenced for praising it.
Notes:
The Upaniṣad speaks of Om as what is to be meditated upon when it says omiti brahma. It praises it in the sequel when it says that Om is, verily, a word of concurrence (omiti etat anukṛtiḥ), etc.