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 2.512
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
चिरकालस्थितिर्येषु पितृलोकेषु ते स्मृताः ।
चिरलोकलोकास्तेऽपि स्युः पितृश्रद्धादिकारिणः ॥ ५१२ ॥
cirakālasthitiryeṣu pitṛlokeṣu te smṛtāḥ |
ciralokalokāste'pi syuḥ pitṛśraddhādikāriṇaḥ || 512 ||
English translation of verse 2.512:
Those who stay long in the world of the manes are referred to by the term ciralokalokāḥ. They are those who perform the ceremonies such as pitṛ-śrāddha (while here in this world).
Notes:
After speaking about the happiness of the human fairies, which is a hundred times superior to that of the highest human happiness, śruti refers to the happiness of the divine fairies, which is a hundred times superior to that of the human fairies. Then it speaks about the happiness of the manes (pitṛṇāmānandah), which is a hundred times superior to that of the divine fairies.
Long stay in the world of the manes is the result of the performance of ceremonies to the manes, etc. (pitṛśrāddhādi-karmaphalam ciralokavāsaḥ).