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 2.29
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
लौकिकी वैदिकी चाथ प्रवृत्तिर्येह काचन ।
नर्ते प्रयोजनं यस्मात्तदेवातः प्रवृत्तिकृत् ॥ २९ ॥
laukikī vaidikī cātha pravṛttiryeha kācana |
narte prayojanaṃ yasmāttadevātaḥ pravṛttikṛt || 29 ||
English translation of verse 2.29:
Since there is no activity here whatsoever, whether secular or scriptural, without (the thought of) the result, the latter alone induces activity.
Notes:
There is no distinction between secular and scriptural activities in respect of the motivatory factor. It should not be thought that, while in secular matters a person is moved by the thought of the result (prayojana [prayojanam]), in scriptural matters he proceeds to do certain actions because he is enjoined to do 30. If a person begins to do a karma as taught in Scripture, it is because of the result which he wants to attain thereby, and not because of the scriptural injunction.