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 2.368
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
घटाङ्कुरादि यत्कार्यं दृष्टं सत्कारणं हि तत् ।
आकाशादि च नः कार्यं तदप्येवं प्रतीयताम् ॥ ३६८ ॥
ghaṭāṅkurādi yatkāryaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ satkāraṇaṃ hi tat |
ākāśādi ca naḥ kāryaṃ tadapyevaṃ pratīyatām || 368 ||
English translation of verse 2.368:
It is seen that a pot, a sprout, and other objects which are effects have an existent thing as their cause. Ether, etc., are also effects, according to us. And so these must also be understood in the same way (as having an existent thing as their cause).
Notes:
The existence of Brahman is sought to be proved by means of an inference as follows: Ether and other objects must have a cause, because they are effects like a pot, and every effect has a cause. It is not enough to say that ether and other objects as effects require a cause. But it is necessary to identify it. The cause of ether, etc., cannot be a finite entity limited by space, time, and other objects, by virtue of its being their cause, and so it cannot be anything other than Brahman which is infinite in the real sense of the term.