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 2.281
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
घटतेऽसाविदं सर्वं सर्वस्यायुर्यतो ह्यसुः ।
तस्मात्तं तद्विदः प्राहुः सर्वायुषमनेकशः ॥ २८१ ॥
ghaṭate'sāvidaṃ sarvaṃ sarvasyāyuryato hyasuḥ |
tasmāttaṃ tadvidaḥ prāhuḥ sarvāyuṣamanekaśaḥ || 281 ||
English translation of verse 2.281:
Since the vital force is, indeed, the life of all, all this is justifiable in prāṇa. Hence those who know it call it quite often as the life of all.
Notes:
Life lasts, as it has been stated in the Kauṣītakī Upaniṣad (III, 2), so long as the vital force remains in the body. So the vital force is called the life of all (sarveṣāmāyuḥ).