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 2.140
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वानन्याविकार्येकमकार्याकारणं परम् ।
ब्रह्मस्वभावमालम्ब्य सृष्टिर्वक्तुं न शक्यते ॥ १४० ॥
sarvānanyāvikāryekamakāryākāraṇaṃ param |
brahmasvabhāvamālambya sṛṣṭirvaktuṃ na śakyate || 140 ||
English translation of verse 2.140:
It is not possible to explain creation by depending on the nature of the supreme Brahman which is non-different from all, immutable, one, and which is neither an effect nor a cause.
Notes:
Since the Upaniṣad says that from the Self which is Brahman ether came into existence, it may be argued that creation is real. But this is wrong. The nature of Brahman is such that it cannot be the cause of anything.