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 2.269
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पूर्वकार्यातिरेकेण स्वात्मना चान्वयोक्तितः ।
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां यथोक्तार्थः समर्थितः ॥ २६९ ॥
pūrvakāryātirekeṇa svātmanā cānvayoktitaḥ |
anvayavyatirekābhyāṃ yathoktārthaḥ samarthitaḥ || 269 ||
English translation of verse 2.269:
In the absence of the effect (viz., the annamaya) mentioned before, (the cause, viz., the prāṇamaya) can exist. And the effect is pervaded by its cause. The idea as stated above (viz., the non-difference of the effect and its cause) has been established by the methods of anvaya and vyatireka.
Notes:
That the effect is not different from its cause can be shown by the methods of anvaya and vyatireka. Since the cause constitutes the nature of the effect, wherever there is effect, there is also its cause, as can be seen in the case of clay and pot which are related as cause and effect. When the effect is present, its cause also is present. This is what is known as the anvaya relation between the effect and its cause. The effect, that is to say, cannot exist independently of its cause. But the cause can exist independently of its effect. In short, while the effect is non-different from its cause, we cannot reverse this relation and argue that the cause is non-different from its effect.