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 2.9
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तदनाप्तिकृदज्ञानध्वस्तयेऽलं न कारकम् ।
प्रत्यग्ज्ञानेऽधिकार्यस्मात्त्यक्तपूर्वोक्तसाधनः ॥ ९ ॥
tadanāptikṛdajñānadhvastaye'laṃ na kārakam |
pratyagjñāne'dhikāryasmāttyaktapūrvoktasādhanaḥ || 9 ||
English translation of verse 2.9:
Since knowledge, but not action, is competent to destroy ignorance which makes it (i.e., mokṣa) unattained, a person who has abandoned the means (viz., karma) mentioned above is eligible for Self-knowledge.
Notes:
Knowledge and ignorance are mutually repellent, but not action and ignorance. Hence ignorance can be removed by knowledge, and not by action. A sannyāsin who has renounced all works and who has the fourfold means of eligibility (sādhana-catuṣṭaya) is the right person to pursue Brahman-knowledge.