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 1.16
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पापस्य कर्मणः कार्यं प्रत्यवायगिरोच्यते ।
नित्यैर्विरोधात्तद्धानिर्न त्विष्टफलदायिनः ॥ १६ ॥
pāpasya karmaṇaḥ kāryaṃ pratyavāyagirocyate |
nityairvirodhāttaddhānirna tviṣṭaphaladāyinaḥ || 16 ||
English translation of verse 1.16:
The result of an evil deed is referred to by the expression “sin”. It is destroyed by obligatory rites, for it is opposed to them, but not the deed which gives rise to a good result.
Notes:
Even granting that obligatory rites, when performed, will cause the destruction of sañcita-karma, they can destroy only the evil deeds and not the good ones, for the latter are not opposed to them. If so, there is bound to be rebirth for the enjoyment of the fruits of the good deeds which are in store.