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 1.57
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
शिष्यस्याऽऽशीरियं ज्ञेया नाऽऽचार्यस्य कृतार्थतः ।
अनाप्तपुरुषार्थानामाशीर्वादो हि युज्यते ॥ ५७ ॥
śiṣyasyā''śīriyaṃ jñeyā nā''cāryasya kṛtārthataḥ |
anāptapuruṣārthānāmāśīrvādo hi yujyate || 57 ||
English translation of verse 1.57:
It must be understood that this is the invocation of the disciple and not that of the teacher who has realized his aspirations. Invocation is, indeed, proper in the case of a person who has not attained his objects of desire.