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 3.77
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उत्कृष्टीतरहीनः सन्निमाँल्लोकान्क्रियोद्भवान् ।
कामान्नी कामरूपी सन्नुपाधीननुसञ्चरन् ॥ ७७ ॥
utkṛṣṭītarahīnaḥ sannimāँllokānkriyodbhavān |
kāmānnī kāmarūpī sannupādhīnanusañcaran || 77 ||
English translation of verse 3.77:
Being devoid of superior and inferior forms, getting the food according to his wish and assuming the forms according to his wish, the knower of Brahman remains (one with Brahman) traversing these worlds which are upādhis created by acts.
Notes:
The śruti text imān lokān kāmānnī kāmarūpyanusañcaran is explained in this verse.
A person who has realized Brahman experiences everything in the world as his own Self. Such a person is truly liberated. We speak of him as a jīvanmukta, since we see him tenanting the body as before. Having become Brahman, and being free from the threefold guṇa (nistraiguṇya), the knower of Brahman who has “attained” liberation sees the world-show without in any way being deceived by it or getting himself involved in it. At the onset of Brahman-knowledge, avidyā ceases to exist, and so the pluralistic universe, too, which is a product of avidyā, full of snares and sorrows, ceases to exist. Though the world along with its cause has been negated, to the jīvanmukta there is the semblance of the world-show persisting for sometime due to saṃskāra (bādhitānuvṛttyā pratibhāsamānān-upādhīn anusañcarannāsta iti).