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 2.672
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यथावस्तु हि या बुद्धिः सम्यग्ज्ञानं तदेव नः ।
पौरुषायासमात्रोत्थमज्ञानं रजतादिवत् ॥ ६७२ ॥
yathāvastu hi yā buddhiḥ samyagjñānaṃ tadeva naḥ |
pauruṣāyāsamātrotthamajñānaṃ rajatādivat || 672 ||
English translation of verse 2.672:
To us that cognition alone is, indeed, valid which comprehends an object as it is. That cognition which arises solely on account of the effort of man is not valid like the cognition of silver, etc.
Notes:
As in the case of an existent object, so also in respect of the knowledge of the existent, there is no work for injunction. Since knowledge is dependent both on the object known and the pramāṇa through which it is known, it cannot be enjoined (pramāṇa-vastutantraṃ jñānam na vidheyam). Here there is absolutely no place for the effort of man. That cognition which is obtained only through the effort of man cannot be a valid one like the cognition of silver in a shell.