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 2.413
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विवादगोचरापन्नं यत्किञ्चिद्रचनात्मकम् ।
तत्सर्वं बुद्धिमत्पूर्वं तदात्मत्वाद् घटादिवत् ॥ ४१३ ॥
vivādagocarāpannaṃ yatkiñcidracanātmakam |
tatsarvaṃ buddhimatpūrvaṃ tadātmatvād ghaṭādivat || 413 ||
English translation of verse 2.413:
Whatever involves intelligent planning presupposes an intelligent being. The subject under dispute, viz., the universe, presupposes an intelligent being, because it involves intelligent planning as in the case of objects like pot, etc.
Notes:
The existence of Brahman is sought to be proved by means of inference (anumāna) in this verse.