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   "divergence_note": "Śaṅkara: 'sā yadi sadṛśī syāt… yadi vā na syāt, tataḥ viśvarūpasyaiva bhāḥ atirīcyate' — if it were equal, still viśvarūpa's radiance exceeds; the ati-yoga frames the limitlessness of Brahman-light."
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   "divergence_note": "Vallabha: 'abhūtopamāvarṇanenāha… evam abhūtopamayā lokavīlakṣaṇatvam uktam' — the impossible-referent simile is itself the vehicle for declaring the utterly world-transcending character of the form."
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  "Why does the Gītā use a quantitative comparison (a thousand suns) to point at something it immediately declares unquantifiable — what does this rhetorical self-defeat accomplish?",
  "Śaṅkara, Madhusūdana, and Vallabha all call this an abhūtopamā (a simile with no real referent) — do their conclusions diverge, and what does each school's use of the same figure signal about their underlying metaphysics?",
  "Madhva reads 'sahasra' as 'infinite' rather than 'one thousand' — what is at stake doctrinally in that lexical choice, and how does Dvaita's insistence on Hari's categorically unlimited tejas differ from Advaita's svayam-prakāśatva argument?",
  "Rāmānuja alone emphasises akṣaya-tejas (indestructible radiance) as a permanent divine attribute rather than a momentary display — what difference does the attribute-in-the-person framing make for devotional practice compared to the impersonal-ground framing?",
  "If this verse is a simile that breaks under its own weight, what was Vyāsa's compositional intention: to produce wonder (camatkāra), to produce cognitive apophasis, or to authenticate the theophany as a real event Sañjaya witnessed?",
  "Śrīdhara's 'kathaṃcit sadṛśī' (only somehow resembles) and Śaṅkara's 'atirīcyate' (exceeds even that) occupy different points on a spectrum of incomparability — does the gap between them matter for the reader's experience of the verse?",
  "Six schools agree the comparison fails upward — yet they disagree on why. What does this convergence-in-disagreement reveal about the function of polysemy-preserving commentarial tradition versus a single collapsed translation?"
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  "advaita": "When you encounter a moment of beauty — a sunrise, music, a person — that temporarily silences the comparing mind, you are grazing the svayam-prakāśatva that the thousand-sun verse points at. The practice is to notice the collapse of the evaluating faculty as data, not loss.",
  "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Rāmānuja's akṣaya-tejas teaching invites a devotional posture toward inexhaustible sources: a teacher, a text, a living relationship whose depth keeps revealing itself. The practitioner stays in kainkarya (service-orientation) precisely because the source cannot be used up.",
  "dvaita": "Madhva's ananta-vācī reading of 'sahasra' trains a corrective habit: when language quantifies the sacred (ten thousand repetitions, hundred-fold merit), hear it as a pointer toward the uncountable, not a scoreboard. Bhakti's arithmetic is always heuristic.",
  "śuddhādvaita": "Vallabha's abhūtopamā — a simile whose referent doesn't exist — is a model for approaching Kṛṣṇa's līlā: do not ask whether the stories are historically possible. Their impossibility is the sign. Bring the same interpretive generosity to irreducibly extraordinary moments in your own life.",
  "bhakti": "Śrīdhara's 'no other comparison exists' is a practical instruction for contemplative prayer: at some point, stop searching for the right metaphor for what you have experienced and rest in the nānyopamā — the trackless open beyond analogy.",
  "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusūdana synthesises both paths in daily life: use the best available comparand (a great teacher, a transformative book, an act of grace) to orient the student — then let the comparand break, and name the break explicitly as the truer teaching. This is the pedagogical arc from upāya to apophasis."
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