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 3.55
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तेन तेनात्मना तद्वदुत्तरेष्वपि चिन्तयेत् ।
ब्रह्मोपस्थ उपासीत प्रजात्यादिगुणात्मकम् ॥ ५५ ॥
tena tenātmanā tadvaduttareṣvapi cintayet |
brahmopastha upāsīta prajātyādiguṇātmakam || 55 ||
English translation of verse 3.55:
Similarly, in the case of other things mentioned in the sequel, Brahman should be meditated upon as existing in those forms. One should meditate on Brahman as existing in the generative organ in the form of procreation, etc.
Notes:
After stating that Brahman should be meditated upon as energy in lightning, as fame in cattle, as light in the stars, śruti says that one should meditate on Brahman as existing in the generative organ in the form of procreation, immortality, and happiness, because one attains happiness, etc., through the generative organ.