Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara鈥檚 Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara鈥檚 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 3.57
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
啶嗋啶距ざ啷� 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶た啶む啶啶掂 啶啶班す啷嵿ぎ啷嬥お啶距じ啷嵿く啶� 啶膏ぎ啶距す啶苦い啷堗 啷�
啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶距ざ啷嵿ぐ啶 啶むう啶距啶距ざ 啶夃お啶距じ啷�啶ㄠじ啷嵿く 啶多た啶粪啶い啷� 啷� 啷キ 啷�
膩k膩艣e sarvamityeva峁� brahmop膩sya峁� sam膩hitai岣� |
sarv膩艣raya峁� tad膩k膩艣a up膩s墨nasya 艣i峁ate || 57 ||
English translation of verse 3.57:
Brahman should be meditated upon as everything in ether by those who have controlled the mind. To him who meditates on the ether, which is the substratum for all things, as Brahman, (the fruit, viz., becoming the Self of all) takes place.
Notes:
This verse explains the 艣谤耻迟颈 text 蝉补谤惫补尘颈迟测腻办腻艣别. The whole universe comprising material things exists in ether. If one meditates that everything in ether is Brahman and that ether, too, is Brahman, one becomes all-pervasive.