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 2.383
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मुखे हस्तादिवच्चायं प्रवेशोऽपि घटिष्यति ।
अमूर्तस्यापि नैवं स्यात्कार्यव्यापित्वहेतुतः ॥ ३८३ ॥
mukhe hastādivaccāyaṃ praveśo'pi ghaṭiṣyati |
amūrtasyāpi naivaṃ syātkāryavyāpitvahetutaḥ || 383 ||
English translation of verse 2.383:
Like the hand, etc., entering the mouth, the entry of Brahman is also possible. But this cannot be, since Brahman is without form and since it has pervaded the effect.
Notes:
The second line of this verse refutes the foregoing explanation.
Even if it is assumed for the sake of argument that Brahman is finite, its entry imo the universe cannot be made intelligible unless it is granted that it has form. It is a matter of common experience that an object which has form enters into another object which has also form. But since Brahman is devoid of form, it is absurd to speak about the entry of Brahman into the world. There is yet another reason to show why the above explanation has to be rejected. Since Brahman is all-pervasive, it has filled in the entire universe. It means that there is no place in the world which is devoid Brahman. And so it is meaningless to speak about the entry of Brahman into the universe.