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 3.70
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
एकत्वाच्च न संसारः क्रियाकारकलक्षणः ।
कुतस्तदिति चेत्तत्र स यश्चायमितीर्यते ॥ ७० ॥
ekatvācca na saṃsāraḥ kriyākārakalakṣaṇaḥ |
kutastaditi cettatra sa yaścāyamitīryate || 70 ||
English translation of verse 3.70:
Also, since the Self is one with Brahman, bondage in the form of action and instruments of action does not exist in the Self. If it be asked “How?” it is said (by way of answer) to that sa yaścāyam.
Notes:
The Self by its very nature is identical with Brahman. Brahman-Ātman is one and non-dual. It is free from difference of all kinds—sajātīya-, vijātīya-, and svagata-bheda. If the Self appears to be involved in action, it is due to avidyā.
The śruti texts “And this one who is in the man, and that one who is in the sun, He is one” (ya yaścayam-puruṣe, yaścāsāvāditye, sa ekaḥ) stress the non-difference of Brahman and Ātman. These śruti texts which are cited in this verse as occurring in the tenth anuvāka of the Bhṛguvallī also occur with only a slight difference in the eighth anuvāka of the Brahmavallī. See verses (528) to (537) of the Brahmavallī for the explanation of these texts.