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 2.706
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
न कुलालवशाद् व्योम शरावायाप्यलं यतः ।
आत्मज्ञानं प्रसिद्धं चेद्विधेरेव विधिः कुतः ।
अथाप्रसिद्धं नितरां विधिर्नैवोपपद्यते ॥ ७०६ ॥
na kulālavaśād vyoma śarāvāyāpyalaṃ yataḥ |
ātmajñānaṃ prasiddhaṃ cedvidhereva vidhiḥ kutaḥ |
athāprasiddhaṃ nitarāṃ vidhirnaivopapadyate || 706 ||
English translation of verse 2.706:
As ether cannot be converted into trays by the effort of a potter, (so also if the assertive Vedānta texts have no validity on their own, they cannot be made valid through injunction). As in the case of an injunctive text, if the knowledge of the Self is obtained (from the Vedānta text), where is the need of injunction? If, on the contrary, it has not been obtained, injunction has no scope at all thereto.
Notes:
The futility of injunction in respect of the knowledge of the Self conveyed by the Vedānta text is once again stated in this verse. If the knowledge of the Self conveyed by the Vedānta text is not valid on its own, is cannot be made valid even by the injunction. Just as an injunctive text conveys its sense without requiring another injunctive text, so also the Vedānta text conveys its sense without requiring an injunctive text.