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 2.3
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यावन्त्युपासनान्यादावविरुद्धानि कर्मभिः ।
संहिताविषयादीनि स्युस्तान्यभ्युदयाय तु ॥ ३ ॥
yāvantyupāsanānyādāvaviruddhāni karmabhiḥ |
saṃhitāviṣayādīni syustānyabhyudayāya tu || 3 ||
English translation of verse 2.3:
Meditations on the saṃhitā, etc., explained in the beginning are not opposed to rites. They are, indeed, for attaining prosperity.
Notes:
In the previous chapter, meditations on the saṃhitā, etc., were dealt with. These meditations are conducive to the attainment of prosperity (abhyudaya) alone; they cannot lead to liberation (mokṣa). Hence the commencement of this chapter which instructs on the knowledge of Brahman that leads to liberation.