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 2.148
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
जनिस्थित्यप्यया ह्येते जगतः स्युः प्रतिक्षणम् ।
धिया जनयते कर्ता कर्मभिश्चेति हि श्रुतिः ॥ १४८ ॥
janisthityapyayā hyete jagataḥ syuḥ pratikṣaṇam |
dhiyā janayate kartā karmabhiśceti hi śrutiḥ || 148 ||
English translation of verse 2.148:
These three states of origination, existence, and dissolution occur, indeed, to the world every moment. Śruti, indeed, declares that the Creator creates (the world) through (i.e., in conformity with) knowledge and works.
Notes:
Neither kāla, nor karma, nor Īśvara, nor anything else, can be the cause of the world. Brahman which is immutable cannot also be the cause of the world. The creation of the world must, therefore, be the work of māyā. The world is anādi. So long as the knowledge of Brahman is not attained, the jīva is subject to worldly existence and goes through the cycle of birth and death. The Kaṭha Upaniṣad (II, ii, 7) says that the creatures are reborn in accordance with their work and in conformity with their knowledge (yathā karma yathā śrutam).