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 1.144
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स्वाध्यायोऽध्ययनं ज्ञेयं तथा चाध्यापनं परम् ।
आधातव्या यथाशास्त्रमग्नयः श्रेयसे तथा ।
होतव्यमगिहोत्रं च कुर्याच्चातिथिपूजनम् ॥ १४४ ॥
svādhyāyo'dhyayanaṃ jñeyaṃ tathā cādhyāpanaṃ param |
ādhātavyā yathāśāstramagnayaḥ śreyase tathā |
hotavyamagihotraṃ ca kuryāccātithipūjanam || 144 ||
English translation of verse 1.144:
Svādhyāya means the study of the Veda. And the other word (viz., pravacana) means the teaching of it. And also the fires have to be consecrated and lighted up as taught in Scripture for attaining the good. The agnihotra sacrifice is also to be performed. The worship of the guests has to be done.
Notes:
The meanings of the words ṛta and satya have already been explained in verses (46) and (47).
Adhyayana is not the blind recitation of the Veda; but it is the study of the Veda knowing is meaning.
The offering of oblation in the consecrated fires is conducive to the attainment of the good, viz., Brahman-knowledge through purification of the mind (cittaśuddhi).