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 2.490
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उत्कृष्यमाणेनानेन ह्यस्मद्गोचरवर्तिना ।
असाधनमसाध्यं तमानन्दं व्याचचक्ष्महे ॥ ४९० ॥
utkṛṣyamāṇenānena hyasmadgocaravartinā |
asādhanamasādhyaṃ tamānandaṃ vyācacakṣmahe || 490 ||
English translation of verse 2.490:
By increasing this happiness, which is, indeed, within our reach, to the highest point, we shall indicate that Brahman-bliss which is unaccomplished and which does not require any means.
Notes:
First we start with the limited and surpassable happiness which human beings enjoy with a view to indicate thereby the infinite, unsurpassable Brahman-bliss. We start with what is familiar to us as the means to comprehending Brahman-bliss. If we go on raising human happiness higher and higher, we will at one stage reach a point beyond which we cannot proceed further. That highest point would represent Brahman-bliss. Brahman-bliss is ever-existent. It is not accomplished or produced by anything (asādhya). It does not require any means for its existence (asādhana).