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 2.219
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
माता पिता गुरुसुताः स्वजनो ममेति
मायोपमे जगति कस्य भवेत्प्रतिज्ञा ।
एको यदा व्रजति कर्मपुरःसरोऽयं
विश्रामवृक्षसदृशः खलु जीवलोकः ॥ २१९ ॥
mātā pitā gurusutāḥ svajano mameti
māyopame jagati kasya bhavetpratijñā |
eko yadā vrajati karmapuraḥsaro'yaṃ
viśrāmavṛkṣasadṛśaḥ khalu jīvalokaḥ || 219 ||
English translation of verse 2.219:
When the jīva goes alone (after death), his karma leading him on, what happens to his declaration in this world of māyā: “My mother and father, my teacher and my sons, my kinsmen”? This world where people live in is, indeed, similar to a tree which serves as a place of rest.
Notes:
Man lives with the assurance that his parents, children, and kinsmen will stand by him at all times. But none is able to come to his rescue when he goes alone after death.