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 1.17
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कामश्च कर्मणो हेतुस्तस्योच्छित्तेर्न सम्भवः ।
प्रत्यग्बोधमृते यस्मादसम्यगिदमुच्यते ॥ १७ ॥
kāmaśca karmaṇo hetustasyocchitterna sambhavaḥ |
pratyagbodhamṛte yasmādasamyagidamucyate || 17 ||
English translation of verse 1.17:
Further, desire is the cause of action. In the absence of the knowledge of the inward Self, its destruction cannot take place. So the view (of the Mīmāṃsaka stated earlier) is not sound.
Notes:
One of the requirements contained in the Mīmāṃsā view stated in verses (9) and (10) is that a person who is desirous of liberation should abstain from optional rites. A person gets involved in kāmya-karma because of desire (kāma) which in its turn is due to avidyā. It is only by knowledge that avidyā ran ^e removed. And so long as avidyā exists, desire is bound to be there. It only means that without getting the knowledge of the Self one cannot be free from kāmya-karma.