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 1.22
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वप्रमाणकोपः स्यादभावाद्भावसम्भवे ।
तस्मादयत्नतः स्थानमात्मनीत्यतिपेलवम् ॥ २२ ॥
sarvapramāṇakopaḥ syādabhāvādbhāvasambhave |
tasmādayatnataḥ sthānamātmanītyatipelavam || 22 ||
English translation of verse 1.22:
The view that a positive something comes out of what is negative is contrary to all evidences. So the contention that liberation which is remaining in one’s own state can be attained without any special effort is not acceptable.
Notes:
It is true that the suffix śatṛ is used both in the sense of cause (hetvartha) and in the sense of indication (lakṣaṇārtha). Of the t wo usages, we have to reject the former usage here; for, perception and other evidences show that only a positive something can be the cause of what is positive.
The Mīmāṃsā view that liberation can be attained without any special effort by just abstaining from forbidden acts and optional rites, and by performing obligatory and occasional rites is, therefore, not acceptable.