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 1.5
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विद्या प्रस्तूयतेऽथोर्ध्वं यथाभूतार्थबोधिनी ।
कर्मोपादानहेतूंस्तान्सैवोच्छेत्तुमलं यतः ॥ ५ ॥
vidyā prastūyate'thordhvaṃ yathābhūtārthabodhinī |
karmopādānahetūṃstānsaivocchettumalaṃ yataḥ || 5 ||
English translation of verse 1.5:
In the subsequent part, viz., the Vedānta, the knowledge of the existent Brahman is commenced, for that alone can destroy action and its causes.
Notes:
The Upaniṣad imparts the knowledge of the existent Brahman which one wants to attain after fulfilling the preliminary requisites prescribed therefor. The performance of good deeds here in this life or in the earlier life leads to the purity of mind (antaḥkaraṇaśuddhi) which in its turn helps one to have the discriminating knowledge, selfcontrol, and the intense desire for liberation. The pursuit of various activities which bind a person is caused by desire; desire arises because of ignorance (avidyā). When knowledge (vidyā) arises, ignorance gets removed; with the removal of ignorance, its effects, viz., desire and action, disappear.