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 2.278
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्राणं प्राणन्तमन्वेव देवाः प्राणन्ति न स्वतः ॥ २७८ ॥
prāṇaṃ prāṇantamanveva devāḥ prāṇanti na svataḥ || 278 ||
English translation of verse 2.278:
The gods (such as fire) remain alive, not by themselves, but only by following (the functioning of) the vital force which possesses the power of sustaining life.
Notes:
The explanation of the third anuvāka begins from this verse.
The meaning of the śruti text prāṇaṃ devā anu prāṇanti is explained in this verse. Fire and other gods perform their functions only by depending upon, and by becoming identified with, the vital force (mukhyaprāṇamanusṛtya svayaṃ svasvavyāpāreṣu prabhavanti).