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 2.519
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
न साधनमयं किञ्चित्स्वात्मसिद्धावपेक्षते ।
स्वतः सिद्धेरविद्याया हानमात्रमपेक्षते ॥ ५१९ ॥
na sādhanamayaṃ kiñcitsvātmasiddhāvapekṣate |
svataḥ siddheravidyāyā hānamātramapekṣate || 519 ||
English translation of verse 2.519:
This (Brahman-bliss) does not seek any means for attaining its own existence, for it is eternal. The removal of ignorance alone is required.
Notes:
We require accessories for getting happiness which is the result of karma. But we do not require any accessory or means for realizing
Brahman-bliss, since it is always attained by virtue of its being our inward Self. Though Brahman-biiss is ever-existent as identical with our inward Self, it does not manifest itself to be such since its real nature is veiled by avidyā. All that is required for attaining Brahman-bliss is the removal of avidyā.