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 2.221
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मृतिबीजं भवेज्जन्म जन्मबीजं तथा मृतिः ।
घटीयन्त्रवदश्रान्तो बम्भ्रमीत्यनिशं नरः ॥ २२१ ॥
mṛtibījaṃ bhavejjanma janmabījaṃ tathā mṛtiḥ |
ghaṭīyantravadaśrānto bambhramītyaniśaṃ naraḥ || 221 ||
English translation of verse 2.221:
Birth is the cause of death. In the same way, death is the cause of birth. Like a water-carrying contrivance (which goes on revolving), man goes round and round (through the wheel of birth and death) always without any rest.
Notes:
So far, a detailed account has been given about the miserable life in the womb, the pangs of birth and death, and the sufferings in the states of infancy, youth, and old age with a view to generate a feeling of disgust against transmigratory existence.