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 2.6
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नित्यकर्माद्यनुष्ठानाच्छुद्धान्तःकरणः पुमान् ।
विरक्तश्चाऽऽग्रजाल्लाभात्स्वप्नपुत्रादिलाभवत् ॥ ६ ॥
nityakarmādyanuṣṭhānācchuddhāntaḥkaraṇaḥ pumān |
viraktaścā''grajāllābhātsvapnaputrādilābhavat || 6 ||
English translation of verse 2.6:
A person who has become pure in mind by the performance of obligatory rites, etc., and who is free from attachment to the fruits which have accrued in the waking experience, in the same way as one is free from attachment to the son, etc., seen in dream, (is eligible for knowledge).
Notes:
A sannyāsin who has a pure mind, who is free from attachment, and who has renounced all rites is eligible for the pursuit of Brahman-knowledge.