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 2.261-262
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उद्भूतिस्थितिहानिभ्यो जगतोऽन्नं हि कारणम् ॥ २६१ ॥
कार्यस्य कारणाद्ब्रह्म तद्ये नित्यमुपासते ।
आप्नुवन्त्यखिलं तेऽन्नमध्यात्मं दैवतात्मना ॥ २६२ ॥
udbhūtisthitihānibhyo jagato'nnaṃ hi kāraṇam || 261 ||
kāryasya kāraṇādbrahma tadye nityamupāsate |
āpnuvantyakhilaṃ te'nnamadhyātmaṃ daivatātmanā || 262 ||
English translation of verse 2.261-262:
Food, indeed, is the cause of the origination, maintenance, and destruction of the world. Since food is the cause of all beings which have come into being, it is Brahman. Those who always meditate on it attain the entire food of all individual beings as the Virāj.
Notes:
These two verses state the reason for identifying food with Brahman and the fruit which accrues to one who meditates on food as the Virāj in the way in which it is taught by Scripture. One who meditates on the food as the Virāj attains the nature of the Virāj, the cosmic being in its gross physical aspect.