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 1.14
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सप्तजन्मानुगं कार्यमेकस्यापीह कर्मणः ।
श्रूयते धर्मशास्त्रेषु किमुतानेककर्मणाम् ॥ १४ ॥
saptajanmānugaṃ kāryamekasyāpīha karmaṇaḥ |
śrūyate dharmaśāstreṣu kimutānekakarmaṇām || 14 ||
English translation of verse 1.14:
It is said in the ethical treatises that the result of even one deed done here follows seven births. If so, what more to be said about many deeds?
Notes:
Verses (13) and (14) emphasize the fact that the fruits of the accumulated deeds which are in store cannot be enjoyed in one birth.