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 2.25
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मा भूदण्वपि मे दुःखं सुख्येव स्यामहं सदा ।
इति स्वतोऽभिलाषोऽयं सत्येव विषये भवेत् ॥ २५ ॥
mā bhūdaṇvapi me duḥkhaṃ sukhyeva syāmahaṃ sadā |
iti svato'bhilāṣo'yaṃ satyeva viṣaye bhavet || 25 ||
English translation of verse 2.25:
This inborn desire (of every one), “Let me not have even an atom of misery, and let me always be only happy,” can take place only if there is this object (of desire, viz., liberation).
Notes:
It may be argued that there is no such thing as liberation, and that the desire for liberation must, therefore, be ruled out. This argument is untenable. The pleasure derived from the sensuous objects is evanescent. But everyone desires happiness and nothing but happiness all the time. Such a spontaneous desire for eternal happiness can be accounted for only if it is admitted, that there is the state of liberation which is eternal bliss.