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 2.73
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
न नाशो हन्ति नष्टारं गन्तारमिव तद्गतिः ।
यस्मिन्सत्येव यः सिध्येन्निरुणाद्धि स तं कथम् ॥ ७३ ॥
na nāśo hanti naṣṭāraṃ gantāramiva tadgatiḥ |
yasminsatyeva yaḥ sidhyenniruṇāddhi sa taṃ katham || 73 ||
English translation of verse 2.73:
The act of destruction does not kill its locus, the object which undergoes destruction, any more than the act of going can kill the goer. How can anything, which depends for its existence upon something else existing, remove that other thing?