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 2.339
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रियाद्यानन्दरूपाणां भेदो यत्र निवर्तते ।
अमनोविषयेऽत्यन्तं तमानन्दं प्रचक्ष्महे ॥ ३३९ ॥
priyādyānandarūpāṇāṃ bhedo yatra nivartate |
amanoviṣaye'tyantaṃ tamānandaṃ pracakṣmahe || 339 ||
English translation of verse 2.339:
That we call bliss which is not comprehended by mind and in which the distinctions of the forms of happiness such as joy and so on are completely absent.
Notes:
Since ānanda is free from specifications and distinctive forms, it is nirviśeṣa and is identical with the supreme Brahman.