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 2.675
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विधिशून्यस्य वाक्यस्य प्रामाण्यं प्रत्यगात्मनि ।
येषां प्रकाश्यत इति न तेषां मतिरीदृशी ॥ ६७५ ॥
vidhiśūnyasya vākyasya prāmāṇyaṃ pratyagātmani |
yeṣāṃ prakāśyata iti na teṣāṃ matirīdṛśī || 675 ||
English translation of verse 2.675:
Those who hold the view that the Upanisadic text which is not connected with an injunction is the source of knowledge of the inward Self do not think (of the work of injunction in respect of the Upanisadic text) in this way.
Notes:
The Niyogavādin may argue that, since the Advnitin admits injunction in certain places, his denial of the need for injunction in respect of the assertive Vedānta texts is untenable. But this argument is based on a basic misunderstanding of the standpoint of the Advaitin. The way in which the Advaitin explains the need for injunction is different from that of the Niyogavādin. While the Advaitin denies the need for injunction in respect of the Self or the knowledge of the Self, he readily admits that there is injunction in respect of those Vedānta texts which refer io acts like hearing, etc. (śravaṇādi-kriyā-viṣaya). See verse (714) in the sequel.