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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

सोऽयं लौकिक आनन्दो निष्ठां साधनसम्पदा ।
यत्र प्रपद्यते भूम्नि सोऽस्त्यानन्दः परो रसः ॥ ४३४ ॥

so'yaṃ laukika ānando niṣṭhāṃ sādhanasampadā |
yatra prapadyate bhūmni so'styānandaḥ paro rasaḥ || 434 ||

English translation of verse 2.434:

There exists Bliss, the supreme Rasa, in which this worldly happiness obtained through various means reaches its culmination.

Notes:

This discussion whether Brahman exists or not which was taken up for consideration in verse (368) is now concluded with this verse.

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