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 3.28
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यावत्साक्षात्परं ब्रह्म करविन्यस्तबिल्ववत् ।
न वेत्ति निर्बुभुत्सुः सन्न तावद्विनिवर्तते ॥ २८ ॥
yāvatsākṣātparaṃ brahma karavinyastabilvavat |
na vetti nirbubhutsuḥ sanna tāvadvinivartate || 28 ||
English translation of verse 3.28:
A spiritual aspirant who desires to know does not give up his inquiry as long as the supreme Brahman is not directly known like a bilva fruit held in the hand.
Notes:
It should not be thought that the inquiry which a spiritual aspirant undertakes will be an endless affair. The inquiry comes to an end as soon as Brahman is realized. So long as Brahman is not directly realized, the spiritual aspirant has to persist in his inquiry.