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 2.216
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अयःपाशेन कालेन स्नेहपाशेन बन्धुभिः ।
आत्मानं कृष्यमाणं त्वमभितो द्रक्ष्यसे तदा ॥ २१६ ॥
ayaḥpāśena kālena snehapāśena bandhubhiḥ |
ātmānaṃ kṛṣyamāṇaṃ tvamabhito drakṣyase tadā || 216 ||
English translation of verse 2.216:
At that time you will see yourself being pulled by the iron cord of death as well as by the cord of attachment of your relatives on both sides.
Notes:
A person who is in the throes of death is utterly helpless. He has no freedom whatsoever to do the right at that time, for he is pulled in one direction by the affection of his kinsmen and in another by death.