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 2.169
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आकृष्य देहात्तच्छुक्रं यथाकर्म यथाश्रुतम् ।
रेतोवहप्राणाड्याऽथ योनौ पुंसा निषिच्यते ॥ १६९ ॥
ākṛṣya dehāttacchukraṃ yathākarma yathāśrutam |
retovahaprāṇāḍyā'tha yonau puṃsā niṣicyate || 169 ||
English translation of verse 2.169:
The semen which is extracted from the body is poured into the womb through the genital organ by man, in the manner determined by (the former) karma and knowledge.
Notes:
The Kaṭha Upaniṣad (II, ii, 7) says that so long as the jīva does not attain Brahman-realization it is subject to transmigratory existence and takes rebirth in conformity with the previous karma and upāsanā which it has performed. Ānandagiri points out that the previous karma and upāsanā of the offspring, or of the parent, or of the two parents of the forthcoming child are the determining factors (janya-janakayorvā strī-puṃsayorvā yathākarma yathāśrutam).