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Sri Tattva-sutras
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By Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura
(The framework for studying the Brahma-sutras)
Tattva Prakaranam
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1. ekah paro nanyah
Sri Krsna is one without a second: He is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.
2. agunopi sarvasaktirameyatvat
Although transcendental to material qualities, Sri Krsna, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, posseses expansive, immense potencies
inconceivable to mundane perception.
3. viruddha-samanyam tasminnacitram
Innummerable contradictory qualities simultaneously existing in
Sri Krsna is nothing uncommon or wonderful.
4. sa saccidanando jnanagamyo bhakti visayatvat
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, whose form is
eternal, fully conscious and blissful, is not perceivable by mundane
faculties but can be realized only by transcendental unalloyed devotional
service.
5. sa ca satyo nityo nadirananto desa-kalaparicchedat
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna is the Supreme
Absolute Truth, beyond the influence of time and space.
6. paropi cijjadabhyam vilasi visva-siddheh
Although transcendental to matter and spirit, Sri Krsna expands
through His diverse energies as the cosmic manifestation, consisting of
both matter and spirit, for His pastimes.
7. tacchaktitastatvadhikyamiticcenna tadabhedat
Sri Krsna's transcendental potency is not a separate principle, it
is identical with Him.
8. kartapyavikarah svatantryat
Sri Krsna being supremely independent, is never affected by His
creation, although He is the cause of all causes.
9. sadaikarupah purnatvat
Sri Krsna is the complete Absolute Truth. (The cosmic
manifestation or annihilation does not change His fullness.)
10. karunyam tat kriya heturnanyadaptakamatvat
Devoid of any material need and desire, Sri Krsna performs His
transcendental activities only due to His causeless mercy.
Cit Padartha Prakaranam
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11. cetanah paranugatastadvidhivasyatvat
The individual living entities are eternally subordinate to the
Supreme Lord Sri Krsna and are subject to His rules.
12. tecanadhyanantah parasaktivisesatvat
These individual souls are eternal (beginningless and endless
being), part and parcels of (the jiva-sakti) of Sri Krsna.
13. cidananda svarupa api parato bhinna nityasatyatvabhavat
Although constitutionally conscious and blissful, the living
entities are certainly different from the supreme living entity Sri Krsna,
who is the eternal Absolute Truth and Supreme Personality of Godhead.
14. tesam paratvam kecidaparebhedamitare tubhayam
The seers of the truth have established three views regarding the
living entity and the Supreme Lord, namely (a) oneness, (b) difference,
and (c) simultaneous oneness and difference.
15. sarvesam samanjasyam satvika vijnanasya bhramatvabhavat pramana
satbhavac ca
There cannot be a mistake in the scientific evidence of
transcendental revelation. So, all these (three) views are in complete
agreement.
16. vicararagau cetana dharmau svarupa pravrtti bhavat
The constitutional nature and character of the living entity is
(transcendental) knowledge and love.
17. pare 'nurakti svabhaviki sreyaskarica itaresaupadhiki duhkhapradhac ca
Love of Godhead is the natural and auspicious function of the
living entity. When that love is directed toward objects of material
existence it becomes the source of all miseries. 18. upadhikrta hi klesah
Miseries arise from attachments to material existence.
19. anartha-nivrttir muktih svapada-prapakatvat
Cessation of unwanted miseries brings one to the platform of
liberation where the constitutional position (as servant of Krsna) is
realized.
20. jivanam itaranurakti heturisvara karunyam tata eva tesam svatantrya
siddheh
The material attachments of the living entities result from their
minute independence, awarded to them by the mercy of Sri Krsna, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Acit Padartha Prakaranam
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21. maya-saktiracidgunavati paravarakarya rupac ca
The external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri
Krsna is endowed with material qualities whose transformation results in
the evolution of many details of this unlimited cosmic manifestation.
22. jadatvat krtisunya cetana prerita bhavati sajnjavavat
Matter being unconscious, cannot act by itself. When activated by
consciousness (spirit) it begins to work.
23. sa parananuraktanam karavadhehati bandhanarupa
Those living entities who are averse to Sri Krsna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, are imprisoned in variegated bodies by the
external energy, maya.
24. anadirananta ca paramesvara saktitatvat
The external energy is without beginning or end because it is the
divine energy of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna.
25. kalenarthantaram baddhanam prakrti sambandha-rupatvat
Time is a form of relation between the conditioned souls and the
external energy.
26. saivadhisthanarupini desa samjnita
The external energy constitutes the accomodation, which is known
as space.
27. jade baddhasyananda bhramo vaikuntha bhramascasangat
Conditioned by matter, the living entity mistakes sense
gratification as bliss and material existence as the transcendental abode
due to association with matter.
28. vivekena tato vimuktih
To become free from these delusions one should discriminate by
transcendental knowledge of the Absolute Truth.
29. na ca prakrtavadindriyagrahyatvam vaikunthasyadhaksajatvat
The spiritual world is transcendental beyond mundane sensual
perception.
30. indriyani tadvisayastajjata bhavas ca manasasaha
prakrtascid-upadhitvajjanyatvac ca
The mundane senses, sense objects, the feelings derived from their
contact, and the mind -- all these are material in existence, due to the
conditioned state of the living entities.
Sambandha Prakaranam
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31. bhaktih purnanuraktih pare
Bhakti is unalloyed full attachment to Krsna, the transcendental
Lord.
32. tasyah svarupam phalamupayasceti
According to the situation of the living entities (i.e.
conditioned or liberated) devotional service is also understood to be in
two stages (phala: end, fruition. upaya: means, regulative).
33. phalabhakte nanyadangamekatvat svatasiddhatvac ca
Spontaneous love of God is independent, unalloyed and
constitutionally the nature of the living entity and therefore does not
have any other limbs.
34. upayabhakteh paranusilanam pratyaharascangah
Cultivation of favorable devotion and retraction from sense
gratificatory activities are the two limbs of regulated devotion.
35. sravana kirtanadini paranusilanopayogitvat tat pratyangani
The nine processes of devotional service, beginning with hearing
and chanting, are the means by which one can develop such favorable
devotional love for Krsna.
36. deharatham manah sarathi mindriya haya mastikyajnanena yuktavairanyena
ca visayamargarcanai nivartayedesa eva pratyaharah
The body is the chariot. The mind is the charioteer, the senses
are the horses. Driving this chariot back home (toward Krsna
consciousness) from the path of sense gratification by the help of
transcendental knowledge and proper engagement of everything i n
devotional service is known as pratyahara (retraction).
37. jnananmuktih jnanadbandhas ca
Transcendental knowledge is the cause of liberation and mundane
materialistic knowledge is the cause of bondage.
38. vairagyanmuktih vairagyat bandhas ca
Engagement of everything in Krsnas service is the cause of
liberation and pseudo-renunciation is the cause of bondage.
39. pratyaharasampatteh parabhaktyasiddhavapi nadhah patanam
If one is not fully free from sense gratification, the cultivation
of devotional practices will not award transcendental love for Krsna,
although there will be no downfall.
40. pratyaharasamrddhya sadhanam bhavastayaiva bhavat prema
To the extent of freedom from sense gratification, one can perform
pure regulated devotional service, which turns into bhava bhakti which
will ultimately bloom into love for Krsna.
Siddhanta Prakaranam
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41. jnanasuryasyehi rasmayah sastrani
Revealed scriptures are the rays of transcendental knowledge.
42. sastramaksamesu valiyo vivekinam naitattanmula prapteh
Rules and regulations are for regulating the ignorant conditioned
souls; those who have attained their constitutional awareness are not
limited by such conditions.
43. bhakteyna sastram tadvidherjnanavirodhitvat
Unnalloyed devotees of Sri Krsna are not to be limited by the
conditions of scriptural rules because their activities are based on
spontaneous attachment which is transcendental to rules and regulations.
44. bhaktau na varnasramavidhih sa tasyajnanaparatvat
Self-realized devotees of Krsna, due to attainment of knowledge of
their constitutional position, are beyond the codes of varnasrama.
45. ajnahitartham grahyam karma na virodhi
A selfless performance of activities for the welfare of ignorant
people doesn't create impediment in devotion.
46. yathadhikaramavasthitirnoparyadhastvat
One should perform devotional service according to ones acquired
nature and qualifications.
47. kamyetarabhaktirnasasta cittaviksepatvadanitya phalatvac ca
The original affinity of the living entities for Sri Krsna, when
degraded and misdirected toward others results in bewilderment of
consciousness and material attainments.
48. pratyaksanumanabhyam bhagavata siddhanta eva gariyan vijnanamayatvat
sarva siddhantasrayatvac ca
Among realized knowledge and inference pertaining to the
conclusion of it, Srimad-Bhagavatam is the highest because it is
transcendentally scientific and is the shelter of all conclusions.
49. caitanyasya sarvacaryasyavirbhave na gurvantaram
Lord Sri Caitanya, who has manifested as a universal acarya, makes
other preceptors non-existent.
(In the absoluteness of the teachings of Lord Caitanya, other
acaryas are absolved!)
50. pare purnanurakti ritaresu tulya jade yukta vairagyanceti saragrahi matam
Unalloyed love toward Sri Krsna, compassionate affection toward
others and dovetailing everything in the material existence in the service
of Krsna, constitute the cream of religious principles as far as the
essence-seeking transcendentalists are concerned.
