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 2.583
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कार्यकारणहानाच्च न विभागः परात्मनि ।
अभावात्कर्मकर्त्रादेर्बोध एवावशिष्यते ॥ ५८३ ॥
kāryakāraṇahānācca na vibhāgaḥ parātmani |
abhāvātkarmakartrāderbodha evāvaśiṣyate || 583 ||
English translation of verse 2.583:
And also, being devoid of both cause and effect, there is no division in the supreme Self. Since distinctions such as the agent and the object are absent (in the Self), consciousness alone remains.
Notes:
It has already been stated in verse (580) that the Advaita view is free from the defect of one and the same thing being both the agent and the object of an action. It is reiterated again in this verse.
The Self by its very nature is free from activity. It has neither the body nor the senses. It is pure undifferentiated consciousness. Agency and other characteristics belong to the internal organ which carries the reflection of consciousness.