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 2.319
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अणिमादिगुणैश्वर्यो बुद्ध्यात्मा कार्यरूपिणः ।
कार्यं हि कारणव्याप्तमतः कामान्समश्नुते ॥ ३१९ ॥
aṇimādiguṇaiśvaryo buddhyātmā kāryarūpiṇaḥ |
kāryaṃ hi kāraṇavyāptamataḥ kāmānsamaśnute || 319 ||
English translation of verse 2.319:
Having become Brahman as conditioned by the intellect, who is endowed with the divine powers like aṇiman, etc., he fully attains all objects of desire which are effects, because the effect is pervaded by the cause.
Notes:
Vijñānam brahma is the Hiraṇyagarbha, the cosmic being in its subtle aspect, which is all-pervasive and which is the cause of all fruits of action (sarva-karmaphala-kāraṇa). When as a result of the meditation the devotee becomes one with the Hiraṇyagarbha, he fully enjoys all objects of desire.