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 2.317
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पाप्मनामाश्रयो यस्माद्रूपनामक्रियात्मकः ।
देहोऽतस्तत्प्रहाणेन हानिः स्यात्सर्वपाप्मनाम् ॥ ३१७ ॥
pāpmanāmāśrayo yasmādrūpanāmakriyātmakaḥ |
deho'tastatprahāṇena hāniḥ syātsarvapāpmanām || 317 ||
English translation of verse 2.317:
Since the body which is made up of form, name, and action is the abode of all sins, the destruction of all sins takes place by abandoning it.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text śarīre pāpmano hitvā.
The removal of cause brings about the removal of effect. If the body which is the cause of all sins is removed, it automatically results in the removal of all sins. “Abandoning all sins in the body” (śarīre pāpmano hitvā) means abandoning or leaving in the body itself all sins born of the body, all sins arising from the erroneous identification of the Self with the body. A person who constantly meditates on Brahman in the upādhi of vijñāna till his death and who has overcome the erroneous notions such as “I am a man.” “I am the doer,” “I am happy,” is rid of all merit and demerit leading to the misery of future birth even as he remains in the body in this life.