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 2.570
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्यस्य भयहेतुत्वमधर्मापेक्षयेति चेत् ।
मैवं तस्यापि तुल्यत्वान्निवृत्तेः स्यादसम्भवः ॥ ५७० ॥
anyasya bhayahetutvamadharmāpekṣayeti cet |
maivaṃ tasyāpi tulyatvānnivṛtteḥ syādasambhavaḥ || 570 ||
English translation of verse 2.570:
If it be said that the other, viz., īśvara, is the source of fear only through (another auxiliary cause, viz.) adharma, it is not so; since that (adharma) too stands on an equal footing, the jīva can never be free from fear.
Notes:
Though Īśvara is different from the jīva, He becomes the source of fear only through another auxiliary cause, viz., adharma, i.e., the previous demerit of the individual. When there is no adharma, so it is argued, Īśvara can never be a source of fear to the jīva.
This argument cannot be accepted. Adharma is the cause of the empirical condition of the jīva. So long as jīvatva persists, one must assume that there is the continuation of adharma. So long as there is adharma, which is a second entity, the jīva can never be free from fear.