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 2.282
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वायुषगुणेनासुं य आत्मानमुपासते ।
ते तं सर्वायुषं प्राणं प्राप्नुवन्त्यभियोगतः ॥ २८२ ॥
sarvāyuṣaguṇenāsuṃ ya ātmānamupāsate |
te taṃ sarvāyuṣaṃ prāṇaṃ prāpnuvantyabhiyogataḥ || 282 ||
English translation of verse 2.282:
Those who meditate on the self formed of the vital force as endowed with the attribute of being the life of all attain Prāṇa who is the life of all as a result of that meditation.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti texts sarvameva ta āyuryanti, ye prāṇam brahmopāsate. Those who, after detaching themselves from the physical body, meditate on Brahman in the upādhi of the individual prāṇa get the full span of life in this world; and those who meditate on Brahman in the upādhi of the Hiraṇyagarbha, i.e., the prāṇa at the cosmic level, attain to the status of the Hiraṇyagarbha in the future birth and enjoy the full span of life till the cosmic dissolution.