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 1.18
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यद्ध्यनात्मफलं तस्मै कर्म सर्वं विधीयते ।
आप्तत्वादात्मनः कर्म नैव स्यादाप्तये ततः ॥ १८ ॥
yaddhyanātmaphalaṃ tasmai karma sarvaṃ vidhīyate |
āptatvādātmanaḥ karma naiva syādāptaye tataḥ || 18 ||
English translation of verse 1.18:
All action is enjoined as means for attaining fruits other than the Self. Since the Self is already attained, action is of no use for attaining it.
Notes:
Whenever we do any action (karma), it is with a view to achieve one of the four results, viz., production, purification, transformation, or attainment; and a fifth use of action cannot be thought of. In the matter of attaining liberation, karma is of no use. Since mokṣa is eternal, it is not something to be produced. Since it is bereft of all qualities and impurities, it is not something to be purified. Since it is immutable, it is not something to be transformed. Since it is always attained as the Self of every one, it is not something to be attained.