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 2.491
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
निष्ठां सातिशयं यस्मात्स्वतोऽनतिशयात्मनि ।
गच्छदीक्षामहे यस्मादेवमानन्द ईक्ष्यताम् ॥ ४९१ ॥
niṣṭhāṃ sātiśayaṃ yasmātsvato'natiśayātmani |
gacchadīkṣāmahe yasmādevamānanda īkṣyatām || 491 ||
English translation of verse 2.491:
Inasmuch as we see that what is surpassable culminates in what is unsurpassable in itself, happiness too must therefore, be understood in the same way.
Notes:
This verse and the following one state that what is surpassable and measurable is a pointer to what is unsurpassable and immeasurable. The same principle must be applied in the case of human happiness which is a pointer to Brahman-bliss.