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 1.6
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स यथाकाम इत्येवं योऽकामश्चेति सादरम् ।
कामाकामैकहेतू नो बन्धमोक्षौ श्रुतिर्जगौ ॥ ६ ॥
sa yathākāma ityevaṃ yo'kāmaśceti sādaram |
kāmākāmaikahetū no bandhamokṣau śrutirjagau || 6 ||
English translation of verse 1.6:
In the passages, "As his desire," and "He who does not desire," Scripture declares to us carefully that desire alone is the cause of bondage and that the absence of desire alone is the cause of liberation.
Notes:
The two śruti passages cited in the verse are from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, (IV, iv, 5-6). The passage, “As his desire, so is his resolve; as his resolve, so his work,” clearly shows that desire leads to bondage. The other passage, “He who does not desire, who has no desires...” tells us that the absence of desires leads to the attainment of Brahman which is liberation.