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 2.133
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कार्यत्वात्कालतो नास्य वस्तुतश्च विहायसः ।
वस्त्वन्तरस्य सद्भावादानन्त्यं वस्तुतोऽपि न ॥ १३३ ॥
kāryatvātkālato nāsya vastutaśca vihāyasaḥ |
vastvantarasya sadbhāvādānantyaṃ vastuto'pi na || 133 ||
English translation of verse 2.133:
Since it is an effect, (ether) is not unlimited by time. Nor is it unlimited by object. Since there is another object, it is not unlimited by object also.
Notes:
Though ether (ākāśa) is not limited by space, it is limited in respect of both time and object. Ether is an effect. It comes into being at a particular time. The category of cause-effect relation presupposes time. Cause and effect are related as earlier and later. Cause is what is prior to its effect; and effect is what follows its cause. As an effect, ether is, therefore, limited by time. It is limited in respect of object as well, because there is Brahman which is its cause and which is different from it. While an effect is non-different from its cause, cause is not non-different from its effect, as it can be seen in the case of pot and clay,