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 3.25
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कार्याणि कारणेष्वेवं तानि चैवोत्तरोत्तरम् ।
प्रविलाप्य परानन्दं यायाद्वाचामगोचरम् ॥ २५ ॥
kāryāṇi kāraṇeṣvevaṃ tāni caivottarottaram |
pravilāpya parānandaṃ yāyādvācāmagocaram || 25 ||
English translation of verse 3.25:
By thus dissolving the effects into their cause and, in the case of the latter, dissolving the lower into its next higher (cause), the supreme Bliss which cannot be comprehended by speech must be attained.
Notes:
The process of dissolution is twofold. The annamaya, the prāṇa-maya, etc., which are modifications, are first dissolved into their respective causes, viz., anna, prāṇa, etc. Anna, prāṇa, etc., are themselves related as cause and effect. So anna which is itself an effect is dissolved in its cause, viz., prāṇa, and so on till ānanda is attained. Even this ānanda which is the cause of the entire universe is finally resolved through knowledge in the pure Brahman-Ātman, which is free from cause-effect relation.