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 2.218
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
संसारयन्त्रमारूढो यमदूतैरधिष्ठितः ।
क्व यास्यामीति दुःखार्तः कालपाशेन योजितः ॥ २१८ ॥
saṃsārayantramārūḍho yamadūtairadhiṣṭhitaḥ |
kva yāsyāmīti duḥkhārtaḥ kālapāśena yojitaḥ || 218 ||
English translation of verse 2.218:
Mounted on the wheel of saṃsāra, led on by the messengers of Death, and bound by the cord of death, the jīva grieves: “Where am I to go?”
Notes:
The jīva who is caught in the wheel of transmigratory existence has no freedom when he leaves the gross body at the time of death with a view to reap the fruits of his previous karma.