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 2.122
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
एकयाऽक्रमवर्तिन्या व्याप्नोति क्रमवर्तिनः ।
अवगत्याखिलान्कामान्योऽकाम इति च श्रुतिः ॥ १२२ ॥
ekayā'kramavartinyā vyāpnoti kramavartinaḥ |
avagatyākhilānkāmānyo'kāma iti ca śrutiḥ || 122 ||
English translation of verse 2.122:
By the one consciousness which admits of no sequence, he comprehends all desires which occur in sequence- There is also the śruti text: "He who is without desire.”
Notes:
When a person realizes through knowledge that his inward Self is Brahman which is infinite, he fulfils at once, without the help of the body and the senses, all desires which are enjoyed in sequence by others. This idea is conveyed by the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (IV, v, 6) which says: “Of him who is without desire, who is free from desire, the objects of whose desire have been attained, and to whom all objects of desire are but the Self—the organs do not depart. Being but Brahman, he is merged in Brahman.” In the course of his commentary on this passage Śaṅkara observes that the knower of Brahman lias attained all objects of desire, “because he is one to whom all objects of desire are but the Self, who has only the Self and nothing else separate from it that can be desired.” He has fulfilled all his desires, because he has realized his identity with Brahman-Ātman which is all.