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 2.620
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रामाण्यमेतत्पृष्ठेन कस्मान्नैत्यभिधाश्रुतिः ।
नियोगस्यापि मानत्वं नानपेक्ष्य प्रमामिमाम् ॥ ६२० ॥
prāmāṇyametatpṛṣṭhena kasmānnaityabhidhāśrutiḥ |
niyogasyāpi mānatvaṃ nānapekṣya pramāmimām || 620 ||
English translation of verse 2.620:
Why should the assertive statements (like tat tvam asi), which impart Brahman-knowledge, not be regarded as valid? Even an injunctive text by itself cannot have validity independently of this consciousness.
Notes:
Independently of injunctive texts, the Upanishadic texts which are assertive have validity on their own, since they convey the knowledge of Brahman, which removes ignorance and its effects. It is the nature of a pramāṇa to make known what is otherwise unknown (ajñāta-jñāpakam). Judged by this criterion, the Vedānta texts which are assertive must be considered to be valid.
Further, even an injunctive text which enjoins something cannot have validity unless what it enjoins is made known by the Self which is consciousness, for an injunctive text by its very nature is insentient: i.e., an injunction cannot make itself known in the absence of consciousness (na ca jaḍasya niyogasya yathoktamanubhavamantarena mānatvamanumantuṃ śakyate.)