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 3.6
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मोक्षादर्वाक्षु भोगेषु व्यावृत्तकरणो भृगुः ।
अध्यापय परं ब्रह्मेत्यपृच्छद्वरुणं गुरुम् ॥ ६ ॥
mokṣādarvākṣu bhogeṣu vyāvṛttakaraṇo bhṛguḥ |
adhyāpaya paraṃ brahmetyapṛcchadvaruṇaṃ gurum || 6 ||
English translation of verse 3.6:
With a mind turned away from all pleasures lower than mokṣa, Bhṛgu asked his teacher, Varuṇa: “Teach me the supreme Brahman.”
Notes:
In addition to the qualifications mentioned above, a spiritual aspirant must have detachment (vairāgya). He should turn away from all kinds of pleasures other than mokṣa.
It was stated earlier that adhihi means adhyāpaya. The latter is used here in the sense of smāraya or jñāpaya. Bhṛgu requests his father to teach him Brahman. Varuṇa is not going to teach him something entirely new. His instruction will amount to making Bhṛgu remember his essential nature, for Bhṛgu in his essential nature is no other than Brahman, which he wants to know.