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 2.386
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
मतं जीवात्मकं कार्यं याति कार्यान्तरं यदि ।
विरोधान्नैवमप्येतन्नैति कुम्भः शरावताम् ॥ ३८६ ॥
mataṃ jīvātmakaṃ kāryaṃ yāti kāryāntaraṃ yadi |
virodhānnaivamapyetannaiti kumbhaḥ śarāvatām || 386 ||
English translation of verse 2.386:
The view that the which is an effect assumes the form of another effect is also not tenable, because it is opposed to reason. A jar does not attain the nature of a tray.
Notes:
This verse and the following one state and refute another explanation that is offered in this regard. According to this explanation, Brahman first becomes an effect in the form of the jīva which again gets transformed into other effects such as ahaṃkāra. So the entry of Brahman, it may be said, consists in the jīva, which is an effect of Brahman getting transformed into other effects such as ahaṅkāra.
This argument is wrong. One effect cannot become another effect. A pot, for example, cannot become another pot, If the jīva is an effect, then it cannot assume the form of buddhi which is also an effect.