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 2.423
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
रसस्यातीन्द्रियस्यास्य त्वानन्दत्वं कुतो न्विति ।
अतस्तत्प्रतिपत्त्यर्थं रसं हीत्युत्तरं वचः ॥ ४२३ ॥
rasasyātīndriyasyāsya tvānandatvaṃ kuto nviti |
atastatpratipattyarthaṃ rasaṃ hītyuttaraṃ vacaḥ || 423 ||
English translation of verse 2.423:
How is it, it may be asked, that this supersensuous rasa is bliss? So with a view to establish this, there is the subsequent text rasaṃ hi, etc.
Notes:
Brahman is supersensuous. It cannot be comprehended by mind or speech. If rasa is said to be Brahman, it would follow that it is also supersensuous. If so, how can it be identified, it may be asked, with bliss or happiness which is immediately experienced by every one of us? The answer to this question is contained in the text rasaṃ hyevāyaṃ labdhvā, etc.