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 3.58
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तत्प्रतिष्ठेत्युपासीत प्रतिष्ठावानसौ भवेत् ।
उपासनानुरूपं स्यात्फलं यादृगिदं तथा ॥ ५८ ॥
tatpratiṣṭhetyupāsīta pratiṣṭhāvānasau bhavet |
upāsanānurūpaṃ syātphalaṃ yādṛgidaṃ tathā || 58 ||
English translation of verse 3.58:
One should meditate on that (Brahman) as the support; one becomes (thereby) well-supported. In the manner the meditation is practised, so the fruit will accrue.
Notes:
The śruti texts tatpratiṣṭhetyupāsīta, pratiṣṭhāvān bhavati are explained in this verse. In this meditation and also in the subsequent ones, the fruit will accrue in accordance with the nature of the upāsanā one practises. As a person meditates on Brahman, so he becomes.