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 2.371
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
साविद्यः प्रत्यगात्मा यो वियद्योनिः पुरोदितः ।
सोऽकामयत नाविद्यां विना कामोऽस्ति कस्यचित् ॥ ३७१ ॥
sāvidyaḥ pratyagātmā yo viyadyoniḥ puroditaḥ |
so'kāmayata nāvidyāṃ vinā kāmo'sti kasyacit || 371 ||
English translation of verse 2.371:
It is the same inward Self, which is associated with avidyā and which was spoken of before as the cause of ether, that desired. Without avidyā desire cannot arise in any being.
Notes:
It is not pure Brahman, but Brahman in association with māyā which is said to be the cause of the world. There is no room for the objection that Brahman which is said to be the cause must be insentient like clay and other objects which are causes. Since śruti says that “He desired” (so'kāmoyata), Brahman cannot be insentient. An insentient object cannot have desires, and one who has desires cannot be insentient.