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 1.28
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कार्यं प्रध्वंसतोऽन्यद्यत्तदनित्यं क्रियोत्थितेः ।
घटादिवत्प्रतिज्ञायां विशिष्टत्वाददोषता ॥ २८ ॥
kāryaṃ pradhvaṃsato'nyadyattadanityaṃ kriyotthiteḥ |
ghaṭādivatpratijñāyāṃ viśiṣṭatvādadoṣatā || 28 ||
English translation of verse 1.28:
Any effect, other than posterior non-existence, which is produced by action, like pot, etc., is impermanent; since (the effect whose impermanence is sought to be established) is qualified (as being positive), there is no defect.
Notes:
The Advaitin argues that, if a positive something is produced, then it is impermanent. The effect whose impermanence is sought to be established by inference is thus qualified as positive. The case of pradhvaṃsābhāva cannot be cited as an exception to the principle, for it is abhāvā and not bhāva. The inference may be stated as follows: Heaven which is said to be release is impermanent; because it is an effect which is positive; all effects which are positive are impermanent like a pot.