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 2.57
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यावान्कश्चिद्विकारोऽत्र ब्रह्म तस्मान्निवर्तितम् ।
भजते कारणत्वं तत्तथाऽचैतन्यधर्मकम् ॥ ५७ ॥
yāvānkaścidvikāro'tra brahma tasmānnivartitam |
bhajate kāraṇatvaṃ tattathā'caitanyadharmakam || 57 ||
English translation of verse 2.57:
Here (in that case) Brahman which is free from all kinds of modifications assumes the nature of cause, and thereby becomes insentient.
Notes:
This verse states an objection. It may be argued that, if Brahman is other than effect, it has to be treated as cause (kāraṇa) and also as insentient (jaḍa) like clay.