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 2.325
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कार्याधिकारगत्वात्तु नैतद्ब्रह्म परं भवेत् ।
अन्नादिमयवत्कार्यं स्यादानन्दमयोऽप्ययम् ॥ ३२५ ॥
kāryādhikāragatvāttu naitadbrahma paraṃ bhavet |
annādimayavatkāryaṃ syādānandamayo'pyayam || 325 ||
English translation of verse 2.325:
But this (ānandamaya) cannot be the supreme Brahman, because it occurs in the context of evolved principles. Like the annamaya, etc., this ānandamaya also is an effect.
Notes:
The opponent’s view is not acceptable. If we consider the context (prakaraṇa), it will be obvious that it deals with effects or evolved principles which have come into being through modifications This is the case with regard to the annamaya and the other kośas. Each one of them is a conditioned self—the self in the upādhi of the physical body, or the vital force, or the mind, or the intellect. None of them should be identified with the supreme Brahman-Ātman. Since the ānandamaya occurs in the same context of evolved principles (vikāra prakaraṇa), it cannot be construed as the supreme Brahman.