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 2.152
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यद्यद्भूत यथासङ्ख्यं तत्तत्तावद्गुणं स्मृतम् ।
पूर्वैर्व्याप्तानि कार्यत्वादुत्तराणि यथाक्रमम् ॥ १५२ ॥
yadyadbhūta yathāsaṅkhyaṃ tattattāvadguṇaṃ smṛtam |
pūrvairvyāptāni kāryatvāduttarāṇi yathākramam || 152 ||
English translation of verse 2.152:
Every element as it occurs in the numerical order is known to have that (number of) quality. Each of the succeeding elements, being of the nature of an effect, is pervaded by the preceding one in the order of sequence.
Notes:
The element which comes first has one quality; that which comes second has two qualities; that which is third has three qualities. The remaining two elements must be understood in the same way.
The following is the sequence of creation: the first to come into being was ether; from ether came air; from air was born fire; from fire emerged water; and from water was created earth. Each element has its own distinct quality as well as the quality or qualities of the preceding element. The distinct quality of ether is sound. Air has touch as well as sound. Fire has three qualities—its own quality, viz., colour and the two earlier ones of air. Water has four qualities—its own quality, viz., taste and the three earlier ones of fire. Earth is endowed with five qualities—its own quality, viz., smell and the four earlier ones of water.