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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

वेदार्थबोधनं नास्ति स्वाध्यायेन विना यतः ।
तथा प्रवचनेनातो धर्मार्थं च ग्रहस्तयोः ॥ १४८ ॥

vedārthabodhanaṃ nāsti svādhyāyena vinā yataḥ |
tathā pravacanenāto dharmārthaṃ ca grahastayoḥ || 148 ||

English translation of verse 1.148:

Since the comprehension of the meaning of the Veda is not possible without the study of it, and since (the increase of) dharma is not possible without the teaching of the Veda, the two are mentioned in every case.

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