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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

अनादाविह संसारे वासनारञ्जिता मतिः ।
प्रतीच्युपायतः कर्तुं शक्या तस्मात्स उच्यते ॥ २३३ ॥

anādāviha saṃsāre vāsanārañjitā matiḥ |
pratīcyupāyataḥ kartuṃ śakyā tasmātsa ucyate || 233 ||

English translation of verse 2.233:

The human mind which is tainted by the impressions accumulated in this beginningless transmigratory existence must be enabled to realize the Self through the means (of explaining the nature of the sheaths). Hence it will be explained in the sequel.

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