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 1.24
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मुक्तेः कौटस्थ्यरूपत्वान्न तस्याः कर्म साधनम् ।
स्वर्गादिवदनित्या स्याद्यदि स्यात्कर्मणः फलम् ॥ २४ ॥
mukteḥ kauṭasthyarūpatvānna tasyāḥ karma sādhanam |
svargādivadanityā syādyadi syātkarmaṇaḥ phalam || 24 ||
English translation of verse 1.24:
Since liberation is eternal, action is not the means thereto. If it were the result of action, it would not be eternal like heaven, etc.