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 1.164
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्मात्सत्त्वविशुद्ध्यर्थं कार्यं कर्म मुमुक्षुभिः ।
प्रागेव ब्रह्मविज्ञानान्नियमेनेति ह श्रुतिः ॥ १६४ ॥
tasmātsattvaviśuddhyarthaṃ kāryaṃ karma mumukṣubhiḥ |
prāgeva brahmavijñānānniyameneti ha śrutiḥ || 164 ||
English translation of verse 1.164:
Hence, śruti, indeed, says that, only prior to Brahmanknowledge, karma must be performed by spiritual aspirants for the sake of purification of the mind.