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 1.115
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अमृतोऽमरणधर्मा स्याद्धिरण्यं ज्योतिरुच्यते ।
तन्मयोऽयं पुमान्ध्येयस्तत्प्राप्तौ द्वारथोच्यते ॥ ११५ ॥
amṛto'maraṇadharmā syāddhiraṇyaṃ jyotirucyate |
tanmayo'yaṃ pumāndhyeyastatprāptau dvārathocyate || 115 ||
English translation of verse 1.115:
The Self is immortal. It is said to be effulgent. This Person who is effulgent must be meditated upon. The path for attaining it afterwards is stated.
Notes:
The word atha (afterwards) here means after death, i.e., after the cessation of prārabdha-karma.