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 2.717
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विपरीतस्ततो यस्तु वाक्यादेवावगम्यते ।
नित्योऽकर्मविमुक्तः सन्न विधेयः कथञ्चन ॥ ७१७ ॥
viparītastato yastu vākyādevāvagamyate |
nityo'karmavimuktaḥ sanna vidheyaḥ kathañcana || 717 ||
English translation of verse 2.717:
On the contrary, when Brahman, which is different from that (which is to be done), which is ever-existent, and which is free from action, is known from the sentence itself, it can never be enjoined.
Notes:
While yāga, etc., which are dealt with in the ritual-section of the Veda, can be enjoined, neither Brahman nor the knowledge of Brahman spoken of in the knowledge-section of the Veda can be enjoined. Since the Vedānta text imparts the knowledge of Brahman on its own, there is no scope for injunction in respect of Brahman-knowledge. Brahman is ever-existent and not what is to be accomplished. It is also not connected with action. Such being its nature, it can never be enjoined.