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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

अनारब्धेष्टकार्याणां नित्यं चेद्ध्वस्तये मतम् ।
नैवं स्वात्माक्रियाहेतुं यतोऽनर्थं निहन्ति तत् ॥ १५ ॥

anārabdheṣṭakāryāṇāṃ nityaṃ ceddhvastaye matam |
naivaṃ svātmākriyāhetuṃ yato'narthaṃ nihanti tat || 15 ||

English translation of verse 1.15:

If it be said that the performance of obligatory rites destroys the good (as well as bad) deeds which have not yet borne fruit, it is not so; for it (the performance of obligatory rites) prevents sin arising from non-performance (of obligatory rites).

Notes:

The Mīmāṃsaka argues that the performance of obligatory rites causes the destruction of the entire sañcita-karma, of all good and bad deeds which are in store. A person who performs his obligatory rites, so he argues, will, without the knowledge of the nou-dual Self, attain liberation when his present life comes to an end. But this argument is untenable. The Mīmāṃsaka himself admits that the fruit which accrues to one who performs the obligatory rites is the removal of sin which one will incur 'as a result of the non-performance of obligatory rites. So the Mīmāṃsaka contradicts himself when he says that the performance of obligatory rites causes the destruction of sañcita-karma.

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