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 2.230
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वेषां चान्नकार्यत्वे ब्रह्मजत्वे समे तथा ।
कर्मज्ञानाधिकारित्वात्पुमानेवेह गृह्यते ॥ २३० ॥
sarveṣāṃ cānnakāryatve brahmajatve same tathā |
karmajñānādhikāritvātpumāneveha gṛhyate || 230 ||
English translation of verse 2.230:
Though ail beings alike are products of food and have evolved from Brahman, still man alone is mentioned here (in the śruti text), because he is qualified for rites and knowledge.
Notes:
Every being has come out of Brahman, and also every being is a modification of the essence of food. Why is it, it may be asked, that śruti says: “From food was born man. That man, such as he is, is a product of the essence of food” (annāt puruṣaḥ, sa vā eṣa puruṣo'nnarasamayaḥ) as though this is true only of man? There is a special reason for mentioning man alone, leaving out other animals. Man alone is qualified for rites and duties as also for knowledge, and so he alone is mentioned by the śruti text.