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 2.13
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
उत्पत्त्यादि स्वतश्चेत्स्यात्कर्मणा किं प्रयोजनम् ।
स्वत एव न चेत्तत्स्याद्वद स्यात्कर्मणाऽत्र किम् ॥ १३ ॥
utpattyādi svataścetsyātkarmaṇā kiṃ prayojanam |
svata eva na cettatsyādvada syātkarmaṇā'tra kim || 13 ||
English translation of verse 2.13:
If origination, etc., are ever-existent (in liberation), of what use is action there? If they are never existent there, pray tell, what is the use of action in this regard?
Notes:
This verse brings out the futility of action in respect of liberation. The result of karma must be one of these four, viz., (1) origination, (2) attainment, (3) transformation, and (4) purification. If any one of these is ever-existent in liberation, karma is not required therefor. If, on the contrary, none of them is possible at any time in liberation, karma has to be ruled out as there is no scope for it in respect of liberation.