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 3.51
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
योगक्षेमात्मकं ब्रह्म प्राणापानसमाश्रयम् ।
कर्मेति हस्तयोस्तद्वदुपासीताप्रमादवान् ॥ ५१ ॥
yogakṣemātmakaṃ brahma prāṇāpānasamāśrayam |
karmeti hastayostadvadupāsītāpramādavān || 51 ||
English translation of verse 3.51:
Brahman in the form of acquisition and preservation exists in prāṇa and apāna. Similarly, one who is free from carelessness should meditate on Brahman as existing in the hands in the form of action.
Notes:
Why is it that Brahman is spoken of as existing in prāṇa and apāna? The first line of the verse gives the answer. A person can preserve what he has acquired and acquire what has not been already acquired only so long as prāṇa and apāna function vigorously. The same explanation holds good in other cases mentioned in the sequel.