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 3.73
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
हेत्वर्था वा भवेदेषा तृतीया ब्रह्मणेति या ।
सर्वकामाशनं यस्माद् ब्रह्मणैवोपपद्यते ॥ ७३ ॥
hetvarthā vā bhavedeṣā tṛtīyā brahmaṇeti yā |
sarvakāmāśanaṃ yasmād brahmaṇaivopapadyate || 73 ||
English translation of verse 3.73:
Or, the instrumental case termination contained in the word brahmaṇā is used in the sense of cause, because his enjoyment of all desires is tenable only by bis having become Brahman.
Notes:
This verse states that the instrumental case may also be used to convey hetvartha. Everything is Brahman. The knower of Brahman, by virtue of his having become Brahman, which is the cause of everything, enjoys all desires (sarvasya brahmamātratvād-brahmāṇā hetunā brahmavidaḥ sarvakāmāśanamupapannam),