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 2.483
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उत्कर्षेतरहीनोऽसौ य आनन्दोऽधिगम्यते ॥ ४८३ ॥
utkarṣetarahīno'sau ya ānando'dhigamyate || 483 ||
English translation of verse 2.483:
That bliss which is spoken of (here for the purpose of inquiry) is that which has neither a higher nor a lower.
Notes:
Brahman-bliss is incomparable. It cannot, strictly speaking, be placed in a hierarchy of pleasures for the purpose of comparison. That is why it is said that there is nothing which is higher or lower than Brahman-bliss, which is free from specific characteristics (sarvaviśeṣa-varjita).