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 2.489
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तत्र लौकिक आनन्दो बाह्याध्यात्मिकसाधनः ।
सम्पन्निमित्तो यो दृष्टः सैषेति स इहोच्यते ॥ ४८९ ॥
tatra laukika ānando bāhyādhyātmikasādhanaḥ |
sampannimitto yo dṛṣṭaḥ saiṣeti sa ihocyate || 489 ||
English translation of verse 2.489:
As to that, the worldly happiness obtained through external means and bodily accomplishments is here referred to by the word ānanda in the text saiṣā.
Notes:
This verse explains the meaning of the word ānanda which occurs in the text saiṣā ānandasya mīmāṃsā bhavati.