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 2.201-202
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दृप्तोऽथ यौवनं प्राप्य मन्मथज्वरविह्वलः ।
गायत्यकस्मादुच्चैः स तथाऽकस्माच्च वल्गति ॥ २०१ ॥
आरोहति तरुं वेगाच्छान्तानुद्वेजयत्यपि ।
कामक्रोधमदान्धः सन्न किञ्चिदपि वीक्षते ॥ २०२ ॥
dṛpto'tha yauvanaṃ prāpya manmathajvaravihvalaḥ |
gāyatyakasmāduccaiḥ sa tathā'kasmācca valgati || 201 ||
ārohati taruṃ vegācchāntānudvejayatyapi |
kāmakrodhamadāndhaḥ sanna kiñcidapi vīkṣate || 202 ||
English translation of verse 2.201-202:
Then, attaining the state of youth, he becomes haughty, and becomes delirious because of the fever of sexual passion. All on a sudden he sings aloud; likewise, he gallops without any reason. He climbs a tree at no time. And also he makes good people feel annoyed. Remaining blind on account of desire, anger, and passion he pays no heed to anything.
Notes:
The misery of youth (yauvana-duḥkha [duḥkham]) is brought out in these two verses.