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...

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Sanskrit text and transliteration:

विषयेन्द्रियसम्बन्धसमुत्थो वा भवेदयम् ।
लौकिकानन्दवत्स्याद्वा सर्वसाधननिस्पृहः ॥ ४८८ ॥

viṣayendriyasambandhasamuttho vā bhavedayam |
laukikānandavatsyādvā sarvasādhananispṛhaḥ || 488 ||

English translation of verse 2.488:

Is this (Brahman-bliss) generated by the contact of the sense and the object like the worldly happiness? Or, is it independent of all means?

Notes:

It was stated earlier in verse (482) that we have to inquire into the nature of Brahman-bliss which is ths source of fear to Agni and other gods. This verse states the way in which it has to be inquired into.

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