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 2.87
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
पारतन्त्र्यमनित्यत्वं धात्वर्थत्वे प्रसज्यते ।
तर्कशास्त्रप्रसिद्धेश्च कर्तृतैवात्मनो भवेत् ॥ ८७ ॥
pāratantryamanityatvaṃ dhātvarthatve prasajyate |
tarkaśāstraprasiddheśca kartṛtaivātmano bhavet || 87 ||
English translation of verse 2.87:
If the root-sense is taken, the defects of other-dependence and impermanence will arise. And, because of the well-known authority of the Tarka-śāstra, the Self must be taken as an agent alone.
Notes:
Knowledge is object-dependent and impermanent. If Brahman is knowledge, it will be open to the charge of other-dependence and impermanence. But there will be no room for these defects if Brahman-Ātman is said to be the knower (jñātā) by deriving the word jñāna in the sense of knower, i.e., the agent of cognition (jānāti iti jñānam), and not in the cognate sense of the verb. This view that the Self is the knower meets with the approval of the Naiyāyika.