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 2.318
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विज्ञानमहमस्मीति तावन्मात्राभिमानतः ।
शरीरे पाप्मनो हित्वा सर्वान्कामान्समश्नुते ॥ ३१८ ॥
vijñānamahamasmīti tāvanmātrābhimānataḥ |
śarīre pāpmano hitvā sarvānkāmānsamaśnute || 318 ||
English translation of verse 2.318:
One who has merely the notion, “I am Brahman as conditioned by the intellect,” fully attains all desires by abandoning all sins in the body.
Notes:
The other result, viz., the fulfilment of all desires, which accrues to one who meditates on the vijñānam brahma is explained in this verse.