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 1.153
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उच्छित्तिलक्षणस्याहं विश्वस्य जगतः सदा ।
अस्य संसारवृक्षस्य रेरिवा जनकोऽस्म्यहम् ॥ १५३ ॥
ucchittilakṣaṇasyāhaṃ viśvasya jagataḥ sadā |
asya saṃsāravṛkṣasya rerivā janako'smyaham || 153 ||
English translation of verse 1.153:
I am always the creator of this tree of saṃsāra, of this entire world which is subject to uprooting.
Notes:
The word “I” (aham) here refers to the sage Triśaṅku, who realized Brahman, who became Brahman.