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 2.508
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
श्रोत्रियावृजिनत्वे द्वे सर्वत्रैव समे अपि ।
कामानुपहतत्वस्य वृद्धौ ह्लादो विवर्धते ॥ ५०८ ॥
śrotriyāvṛjinatve dve sarvatraiva same api |
kāmānupahatatvasya vṛddhau hlādo vivardhate || 508 ||
English translation of verse 2.508:
Both learning of the Vedas and sinlessness are common, indeed, to all levels. When desirelessness grows, happiness increases.
Notes:
The three means of attaining happiness are: (1) knowledge of the Vedas (śrotriyatva [śrotriyatvam]), (2) sinlessness (avṛjinatva [avṛjinatvam]), and (3) desirelessness (akāmahatatva [akāmahatatvam]). The first two factors are common to all levels from that of the human being upto that of the Hiraṇyagarbha. They do not vary from level to level. But desirelessness (akāmahatatva) varies from stage to stage. As we proceed from a lower to the next higher stage, desirelessness or mental tranquillity increases. Keeping pace with the growth of mental tranquillity, happiness, too, increases. So there is something unique about desirelessness as a means of happiness.