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 1.29
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्रध्वंसाच्छकलादि स्यात्तच्चानित्यं घटादिवत् ।
कल्पनामात्रतोऽभावो नैवारभ्यः स कर्मभिः ॥ २९ ॥
pradhvaṃsācchakalādi syāttaccānityaṃ ghaṭādivat |
kalpanāmātrato'bhāvo naivārabhyaḥ sa karmabhiḥ || 29 ||
English translation of verse 1.29:
By the act of destruction, the effect in the form of potsherds is produced. Like pot, etc., it is also impermanent. Abhāva which is only in imagination is not produced by action.
Notes:
The Advaitin does not accept negative entities pradhvaṃsābhāva. When a pot is destroyed, what originates is potsherds. Strictly speaking, there is no destruction or non-existence of pot. If pot does not exist in the form of pot, it exists in some other form, say, potsherds. So the Advaitin accepts neither pradhvaṃsābhāva nor its being an effect of an act. According to Advaita, whit is called pradhvaṃsābhāva is, like a hare’s horn, a figment of imagination, and the question of its being permanent or otherwise does not arise.