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 2.154
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पञ्चैवखलु भूतानि व्योमादीन्युपलक्षयेत् ।
कार्यकारणरूपेण भूतेभ्यो नान्यदिष्यते ॥ १५४ ॥
pañcaivakhalu bhūtāni vyomādīnyupalakṣayet |
kāryakāraṇarūpeṇa bhūtebhyo nānyadiṣyate || 154 ||
English translation of verse 2.154:
There are, indeed, only five elements such as ether indicated above. Nothing else is desired than these (five) elements which appear in the form of causes and effects.
Notes:
In the Kauṣītakī Upaniṣad (III, 8) reference is made to ten elements of matter (bhūta-mātra). But these are not primary or basic elements which are only five. There is no need to accept any other element besides these five. All the objects of the world which are related as causes and effects are made up of these five elements.