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 2.690
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
गोदोहनस्य भिन्नत्वाद्भिन्नं चेत्साधनं मतम् ।
प्राप्ता प्रणयतीत्यस्य साध्यभेदाद्विभिन्नता ॥ ६९० ॥
godohanasya bhinnatvādbhinnaṃ cetsādhanaṃ matam |
prāptā praṇayatītyasya sādhyabhedādvibhinnatā || 690 ||
English translation of verse 2.690:
If it be said that, since milk-pail is different (from pan), the means (viz., the act of pouring, in the two cases) is different, it would follow that the two acts of pouring are different because of the difference in fruits (viz., heaven and cattle, secured by them).
Notes:
One may argue that the act of pouring, which is the means, is different in the two cases, since the two substances, viz., milk-pail (godohuna) and pan (camasa), are different. In that case, the sentence godohanena paśukāmasya, it may be urged, does not repeat what is conveyed by the other text. This argument will not do. One might as well argue that the two acts of praṇayana must be different inasmuch as the fruits, viz., heaven and cattle, obtained thereby are different. This line of argument will make the injunction which enjoins a particular substance for obtaining a particular fruit in connection with the act previously enjoined futile.