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 2.637
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नैतदेवं यतो नेह ज्ञेयार्थव्याप्तिमात्रतः ।
फलान्तरं प्रबोधस्य किञ्चित्सम्भाव्यतेऽण्वपि ॥ ६३७ ॥
naitadevaṃ yato neha jñeyārthavyāptimātrataḥ |
phalāntaraṃ prabodhasya kiñcitsambhāvyate'ṇvapi || 637 ||
English translation of verse 2.637:
It is not so, because here knowledge has no other result, however minute, than revealing the object to be known.
Notes:
This verse refutes the argument of the Niyogavādin..
The work of knowledge consists in the manifestation of an object. Determination or ascertainment of the nature of the object known is the only result of knowledge. Without revealing the nature of the object, the knowledge of that object cannot arise. Since knowledge is conducive to its result, viz., the manifestation of an object, of its own accord, there is no need for injunction.