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 2.688
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स्वर्गेणैवाभिसम्बन्धः पयसश्चेदनुत्तरम् ।
स्वर्गस्य सिद्धये नालं द्रव्यमात्रं पयो यतः ॥ ६८८ ॥
svargeṇaivābhisambandhaḥ payasaścedanuttaram |
svargasya siddhaye nālaṃ dravyamātraṃ payo yataḥ || 688 ||
English translation of verse 2.688:
It is no reply to say that the substance “milk” is connected with heaven alone (and not with the act), because the substance “milk”, by itself (without being connected with the act) is not enough for attaining heaven.
Notes:
It is no argument to say that the substance “milk” is connected with svarga, which is the result, to which it is conducive and not with the act of offering. So long as it is not admitted by the Niyogavādin that a word conveys its sense on its own without depending on an injunction, its connection with anything else, be it an act or a result that accrues as a consequence of an act, cannot be established. Strictly speaking the substance “milk” cannot be directly related to the result, viz., svarga, without being connected with the act of offering.