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 2.484
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
दृष्टः सातिशयस्तावदानन्दः कर्महेतुकः ।
आब्रह्मनरपर्यन्ते लोकेऽस्माभिः प्रमाणतः ॥ ४८४ ॥
dṛṣṭaḥ sātiśayastāvadānandaḥ karmahetukaḥ |
ābrahmanaraparyante loke'smābhiḥ pramāṇataḥ || 484 ||
English translation of verse 2.484:
It is known to us from experience that the happiness (of beings) in the world from Brahmā down to the human being is the result of their (previous) karma, and is comparable.
Notes:
Brahman-bliss is incomparable (niratiśaya). But the happiness which is experienced by all creatures, being the fruit of their previous deeds, is comparable (sātiśaya), i.e., it admits of comparison.