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 1.54
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सूक्ष्मार्थानुप्रवेशाय बहिष्प्रवणचेतसाम् ।
संहिताविषयं तावत्स्थूलोपासनमुच्यते ॥ ५४ ॥
sūkṣmārthānupraveśāya bahiṣpravaṇacetasām |
saṃhitāviṣayaṃ tāvatsthūlopāsanamucyate || 54 ||
English translation of verse 1.54:
With a view to divert the mind, which is engrossed in external things, towards the subtle meaning (conveyed by the Upaniṣad), meditation on the combination of letters which are gross is taught.
Notes:
Inquiry into the Upaniṣad will be fruitful only if the mind is made pure by meditations. First of all meditation on the Saṃhitā (combination of letters) is taught. It is called sthūlopāsanā because meditation is to be made on the letters which are gross.
Verses (54) to (67) deal with the third anuvāka of the Upaniṣad.