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 2.482
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यस्माद्ब्रह्मण आनन्दाद्भीता वातादयोऽवशाः ।
स्वकर्मसु प्रवर्तन्ते भृत्याः स्वामिभयादिव ।
तस्यानन्दस्य मीमांसा विचारः क्रियतेऽधुना ॥ ४८२ ॥
yasmādbrahmaṇa ānandādbhītā vātādayo'vaśāḥ |
svakarmasu pravartante bhṛtyāḥ svāmibhayādiva |
tasyānandasya mīmāṃsā vicāraḥ kriyate'dhunā || 482 ||
English translation of verse 2.482:
Since Wind and other gods who are independent do their works being afraid of Bliss which is Brahman, in the same way as servants do their works being afraid of their master, the mīmāṃsā, i.e., an inquiry into bliss is now undertaken.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the śruti text saiṣā ānandasya mīmāṃsā bhavati.
Mīmāṃsā means vicāra, inquiry. It is necessary to inquire whether bliss which is Brahman is sensuous, that is to say, whether it arises from the sense-object contact like empirical pleasure or whether it is natural (svābhāvika), i.e., ever existent.