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 2.486
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ब्रह्मादिनरपर्यन्तं पुण्यकर्मानुरूपतः ।
उपजीवति लोकोऽयं यस्यानन्दस्य विप्रुषम् ॥ ४८६ ॥
brahmādinaraparyantaṃ puṇyakarmānurūpataḥ |
upajīvati loko'yaṃ yasyānandasya vipruṣam || 486 ||
English translation of verse 2.486:
All beings in the world from Brahmā down to man live on a drop of this Brahman-bliss in accordance with their good deeds.
Notes:
It should not be thought that there are two kinds of happiness—empirical happiness which is sātiśaya and brahman-bliss which is niratiśaya—which are basically different. The infinite unsurpassable bliss appears to be limited admitting of various degrees as it springs forth in our minds in accordance with our previous meritorious deeds (sa eva brahmānandaḥ śubhakarma-janita-buddhivṛttyavacchinnaḥ sātiśayaḥ). What is unlimited and unsurpassable becomes limited and surpassable because of the mental mode (buddhi-vṛtti) in which it manifests. That whatever happiness a being enjoys is only a drop or a particle of the infinite bliss which is Brahman is clearly brought out by the Bṛhadāraṇyaka text (IV, iii, 32) which says: “On a particle of this very bliss other beings live.” So it is wrong to think that there are two kinds of happiness.