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 2.315
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अग्रजं ब्रह्म विज्ञानं देवा अग्न्यादयः सदा ।
उपासते तदाप्त्यर्थं ते देवा इति च श्रुतिः ॥ ३१५ ॥
agrajaṃ brahma vijñānaṃ devā agnyādayaḥ sadā |
upāsate tadāptyarthaṃ te devā iti ca śrutiḥ || 315 ||
English translation of verse 2.315:
Agni and other gods always meditate on Brahman, the first-born, which is conditioned by the intellect for the sake of attaining it. And the śruti text says: "The gods meditate (upon that immortal light of lights).”
Notes:
The śruti text quoted in the verse is from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (IV, iv, 16). It says: “He behind whom the year revolves with the days, on Him the gods meditate as the light of lights, as immortal time.”