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 2.125-126
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अविद्याहेतवः कामाः काममूलाः प्रवृत्तयः ।
धर्माधर्मौ च तन्मूलौ देहोऽनर्थाश्रयस्ततः ॥ १२५ ॥
अतोऽविद्यानिरोधे स्यान्निरोधो विदुषः सदा ।
निःशेषकर्महेतूनां विकाराणां तदैव तु ॥ १२६ ॥
avidyāhetavaḥ kāmāḥ kāmamūlāḥ pravṛttayaḥ |
dharmādharmau ca tanmūlau deho'narthāśrayastataḥ || 125 ||
ato'vidyānirodhe syānnirodho viduṣaḥ sadā |
niḥśeṣakarmahetūnāṃ vikārāṇāṃ tadaiva tu || 126 ||
English translation of verse 2.125-126:
Desires are caused by ignorance; activities are rooted in desires. And activity gives rise to dharma and adharma; and from these comes the body which is the seat of evil. Therefore, to the wise man, when ignorance is destroyed for ever, desires which are the cause of all activities are also destroyed at the same time.
Notes:
When avidyā, the root cause, disappears on the onset of knowledge, desires, too, cease to exist. No special effort is need to root them out.