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 2.723
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विद्वान्सन्न बिभेतीति विद्याकालं भवेत्फलम् ।
न तु स्वर्गादिवत्प्राप्यं भुञ्जानस्तृप्यतीतिवत् ॥ ७२३ ॥
vidvānsanna bibhetīti vidyākālaṃ bhavetphalam |
na tu svargādivatprāpyaṃ bhuñjānastṛpyatītivat || 723 ||
English translation of verse 2.723:
By saying that being a knower of Brahman he is not afraid of anything, (śruti teaches that) the fruit (of knowledge) takes place simultaneously with knowledge in the same way as the sentence “The person who eats is satisfied” (conveys that the satisfaction resulting from eating is simultaneous with eating). It is not like heaven, etc., which are to be attained (in the future).