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 2.373
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आत्मस्थे नामरूपे ये देशकालाद्यपेक्षिणी ।
जगत्कर्मवशादीशाद् व्यज्येते बहुधात्मनः ॥ ३७३ ॥
ātmasthe nāmarūpe ye deśakālādyapekṣiṇī |
jagatkarmavaśādīśād vyajyete bahudhātmanaḥ || 373 ||
English translation of verse 2.373:
These names and forms residing in the Self manifest in many forms from the Self, the Lord, at their appropriate time and place due to the previous karma of all beings in the universe.
Notes:
This verse and the following one explain the manifestation of the world of name and form through avidyā, the inscrutable potency of Brahman. The Lord takes into account the previous karma of the creatures at the time of creation. The nature of the rebirth of a creature is dependent on its previous karma. As the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (III, ii, 13) puts it: “Verily, one becomes good by good action, bad by bad action”