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 3.52
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तथा गतिरिति ध्येयं पादयोर्ब्रह्म सर्वदा ।
विमुक्तिरिति पायौ च समाज्ञा मानुषीः स्मृताः ॥ ५२ ॥
tathā gatiriti dhyeyaṃ pādayorbrahma sarvadā |
vimuktiriti pāyau ca samājñā mānuṣīḥ smṛtāḥ || 52 ||
English translation of verse 3.52:
In the same way, Brahman should always be meditated upon as existing in the feet in the form of motion and in the anus in the form of excretion. These are said to be meditations pertaining to men (i.e., with reference to the human body).
Notes:
This verse explains the other meditations on Brahman with reference to the human body as stated in the śruti texts gatiriti pādayoḥ, vimuktiriti pāyau.