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 3.50
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अप्राप्तप्रापणं योगः क्षेमश्चोभयरूपभृत् ।
प्राणापानाश्रयं ब्रह्म तदुपासीत तौ ह्यतः ॥ ५० ॥
aprāptaprāpaṇaṃ yogaḥ kṣemaścobhayarūpabhṛt |
prāṇāpānāśrayaṃ brahma tadupāsīta tau hyataḥ || 50 ||
English translation of verse 3.50:
Yoga is acquisition of what has not been already acquired. And, kṣema (is preservation). Brahman exists in prāṇa and apāna in the two forms (of acquisition and preservation). So one should meditate on the two (praṇa and apāna) as Brahman.
Notes:
The śruti text yogakṣema id prāṇāpānayoḥ is explained in this verse.