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 2.737
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
फलस्यायं स्वभावो हि यत्स्वकर्त्रनुगामिता ।
अतो न तपतो ज्ञोत्थावकर्तारं शुभाशुभौ ॥ ७३७ ॥
phalasyāyaṃ svabhāvo hi yatsvakartranugāmitā |
ato na tapato jñotthāvakartāraṃ śubhāśubhau || 737 ||
English translation of verse 2.737:
This is, indeed, the nature of the fruit (of an action) that it accrues to the agent of the act. Hence good and evil performed by him when he was ignorant (earlier) do not afflict him who knows himself as the non-agent.
Notes:
The omission of the good and the commission of the bad do not torment the wise man, the knower of Brahman, who remains as Brahman, which is not an agent. That is to say, since the wise man has no sense of agency, he is free from remorse.