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 2.185
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कर्मोत्थभावनाभिस्तु चोद्यते यद्यदिन्द्रियम् ।
जायते तदहङ्काराद्यथाकर्म यथाश्रुतम् ॥ १८५ ॥
karmotthabhāvanābhistu codyate yadyadindriyam |
jāyate tadahaṅkārādyathākarma yathāśrutam || 185 ||
English translation of verse 2.185:
The sense organ which is said to arise through the impressions which are generated by karma evolves from the ahaṅkāra, in conformity with (the former) work and knowledge.
Notes:
It is not from pure ahaṅkāra that the senses come into existence, but only from the ahaṅkāra which carries the reflection of consciousness (sābhāsa-ahaṅkāra).