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 3.61-62
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यस्तु ब्रह्मेति तद्ब्रह्म ह्युपासीत यथोदितम् ।
फलं तस्य तदेव स्यादिति पूर्वमवादिषम् ॥ ६१ ॥
ब्रह्मणो ब्राह्मणस्यैव परिमरं ब्रह्म तत्तदा ॥ ६२ ॥
yastu brahmeti tadbrahma hyupāsīta yathoditam |
phalaṃ tasya tadeva syāditi pūrvamavādiṣam || 61 ||
brahmaṇo brāhmaṇasyaiva parimaraṃ brahma tattadā || 62 ||
English translation of verse 3.61-62:
It has been stated earlier that to him who meditates on Brahman as the supreme, as described, the same fruit
Notes:
(viz., supremacy) will accrue. That (ether which is non-different from Brahman) is Brahman’s destructive agent.
These two verses explain śruti texts tadbrahmetyupāsīta, brahmavān bhavati, tadbrahmaṇaḥ parimara ityupāsīta.
It was stared earlier that, if one meditates on Brahman as great, one becomes great through progeny. Now another meditation on Brahman is stated. If one meditates on Brahman, which is identified with ether, as the supreme, one attains supremacy through knowledge.
The last line of verse (62) says that ether is the destructive agent of Brahman. This will be explained in the next verse.