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 2.504
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आविरिञ्चाद्भवेदेवं पूर्वस्मादुत्तरोऽधिकः ।
सहस्रदशभागेन ह्युत्तरोत्तरतः क्रमात् ॥ ५०४ ॥
āviriñcādbhavedevaṃ pūrvasmāduttaro'dhikaḥ |
sahasradaśabhāgena hyuttarottarataḥ kramāt || 504 ||
English translation of verse 2.504:
Of the stages which follow one after another in an order upto the Hiraṇyagarbha, each succeeding stage is, indeed, a hundred times superior to the one preceding it.
Notes:
Starting from the human happiness, the Upaniṣad proceeds in an ascending order and speaks of the happiness of the human fairies, of the divine fairies, of the manes, of the gods in heaven, of the karmadevas, of the gods, of Indra, of Bṛhaspati, of the Virāj, and of the Hiraṇyagarbha. The happiness attained at each higher stage is a hundred times superior to that attained in its preceding lower stage.