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 2.144
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
नेदानीमद्वितीयत्वात्कौटस्थ्यादात्मनः सदा ।
भविष्यत्यस्त्यभून्नातो वस्तुवृत्तमपेक्ष्य तु ॥ १४४ ॥
nedānīmadvitīyatvātkauṭasthyādātmanaḥ sadā |
bhaviṣyatyastyabhūnnāto vastuvṛttamapekṣya tu || 144 ||
English translation of verse 2.144:
Creation is not now, because the Self is always nondual and immutable. So considering the real state of things, there never was, nor is, nor is yet to be, (the creation of the world by Brahman).
Notes:
It cannot be said that the creation of the world takes place now. Creation involves duality. If the world is created now by Brahman, it means that the created is different from Brahman, the creator. Since śruti says that Brahman is non-dual, it is absurd to think of creation in the real sense of the term. There is also another reason to show that Brahman cannot be the cause of creation. Brahman is immutable; it is not a factor involved in any action. So, Brahman cannot be said to create the world in the present.
To sum up: creation was not in the past; nor is it in the present; nor will it be in the future.