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 2.89
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
स्वरूपाव्यतिरेकेऽपि कार्यत्वमुपचारतः ।
बुद्ध्युपाश्रयकार्याणि कल्प्यन्तेऽत्राविवेकतः ॥ ८९ ॥
svarūpāvyatireke'pi kāryatvamupacārataḥ |
buddhyupāśrayakāryāṇi kalpyante'trāvivekataḥ || 89 ||
English translation of verse 2.89:
Though knowledge is not distinct from the nature of the Self, it is spoken of as an effect by courtesy. The changes which take place in the mind are superimposed here (i.e., on knowledge) due to non-discrimination.
Notes:
Knowledge is the essential nature of the Self, and so it is not different from it. It is immutable; it is not subject to changes (vikārāḥ) such as beginning and end. But the mental modes, the changes which take place in the mind which is the adjunct of the Self, have beginning and end. Being illumined by the knowledge which is the Self, they are spoken of as cognitions. On account of ignorance, the changes of the mind are wrongly superimposed on the immutable knowledge which is Ātman. It is only in a figurative sense that knowledge which is the Self can be said to be an effect or what is originated.