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 2.510
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्माद्यथोदितानन्दप्राप्तये साधनत्रयम् ।
श्रोत्रियावृजिनत्वे द्वे तथाऽकामहतात्मता ॥ ५१० ॥
tasmādyathoditānandaprāptaye sādhanatrayam |
śrotriyāvṛjinatve dve tathā'kāmahatātmatā || 510 ||
English translation of verse 2.510:
Hence for attaining the highest bliss which has been spoken of, the two factors, viz., the learning of the Vedas and sinlessness, and also desirelessness are the three means.
Notes:
The Taittirīya text which we are considering here refers only to the study of the Vedas and desirelessness as the means of attaining bliss. It does not speak about sinlessness (avṛjinatva [avṛjinatvam]) as a means thereto. Nevertheless this, too, must be included in the list as it has been stated in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka text (IV, in, 33) where there is a similar account of the increasing grades of happiness. It says: “The joy of the gods by action multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy for the gods by birth, as well as one who is versed in the Vedas, sinless, and free from desire... The joy in the world of Prajāpati multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy in the world of Hiraṇyagarbha, as well as of one who is versed in the Vedas, sinless, and free from desire.”