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 2.72
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
इष्टो नाशस्य नाशश्चेदस्तु जीव शतं समाः ।
घटोऽनाशीति मत्पक्षः स च नैवं विहन्यते ॥ ७२ ॥
iṣṭo nāśasya nāśaścedastu jīva śataṃ samāḥ |
ghaṭo'nāśīti matpakṣaḥ sa ca naivaṃ vihanyate || 72 ||
English translation of verse 2.72:
If the destruction of destruction is acceptable, may you live a hundred years. That the pot is indestructible is our view, and so far it has not been struck down.
Notes:
If it is said that, though destruction has taken place when the pct exists, the destruction itself is destroyed because of the existence of the pot to which it is opposed, it amounts to saying that the pot exists.