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    "fix": "verb-lemma-misidentification (broader heuristic: prefix-√root canonical for all verb-tagged tokens)",
    "scope": "word_by_word[].lemma",
    "loci": [
     "paryupāsate: paryupās -> √paryupās"
    ]
   },
   {
    "kind": "qmark_artifact_repair",
    "applied_at": "2026-05-08T01:56:14.881867Z",
    "applied_by": "summon-web/scripts/repair_qmark_artifacts.py",
    "n_senses_repaired": 5,
    "substitution": "? -> ,",
    "root_cause": "ITRANS '\\,' (literal-comma escape) in sd_bgshankarabhashya.itx corrupted to '?' during upstream HTML pipeline at gitasupersite; propagated through h_c_panel/commentaries/bg_*.jsonl into substrate.",
    "verification_source": "sonos-paper/samvad_db/sources/sd_bgshankarabhashya.itx"
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 },
 "so_what_questions": [
  "Why does Krsna present the aksara-upasaka path at all if he has just declared the saguna-bhakta to be 'most integrated' (yuktatama)? What does the comparative structure of 12.2 vs 12.3-4 reveal about the Gita's view of multiple legitimate paths?",
  "The six epithets — anirdesya, avyakta, sarvatra-ga, acintya, kutastha, acala, dhruva — describe the same referent yet each school hears a different entity (nirvisesha-Brahman, pratyag-atman, prakriti, aksara-aspect of Krsna). What does this divergence say about bounded polysemy as a structural feature of the text?",
  "Sankara's 'oil-stream' (tailadharavat) simile for sustained cognition: is nidhidhyasana a practice or a state? What distinction do the schools draw between upasana-as-technique and upasana-as-realization?",
  "Madhva alone reads aksara here as prakriti rather than atman or Brahman. What textual and intertextual grounds does he adduce, and does BG 15.16-17 confirm or complicate his reading?",
  "Vallabha's antithetical reading — where each epithet of the aksara becomes a point of contrast with Krsna's personal svarupa — is structurally different from all other bhashyas. What hermeneutic move does this represent, and does the mula support it?",
  "Ramanuja's emphasis that the aksara-meditator must also cultivate 'sarvabhuta-hite rati' (delight in the welfare of all beings) as a prerequisite: is universal compassion a logical consequence of atman-vision or merely an ethical accompaniment?",
  "All six schools agree the aksara-upasaka reaches the Lord ('mam prapnuvanti'). Does this convergence in result alongside divergence in method challenge or confirm the Gita's pluralism?"
 ],
 "everyday_applications": {
  "advaita": "In a contentious meeting where your position is being attacked, practice being kutastha — the witness-ground that does not move while the arguments collide around it. Notice that the awareness watching the debate is itself not debating. This is not dissociation; it is the oil-stream of steady presence Sankara describes. The more you can sustain that unbroken self-recognition, the less you need to win.",
  "viśiṣṭādvaita": "When you feel contempt or favoritism toward someone because of their role or rank — 'she is just a junior,' 'he is a senior, I must defer' — recall Ramanuja's reading: the pratyag-atman in every body is the same one that cannot be labeled by species-name. 'Sarvatra samabuddhayah' is not a spiritual cliche; it is the practical consequence of atman-vision. Try applying it once today in a situation where hierarchy usually triggers deference or dismissal.",
  "dvaita": "Madhva's reading is a caution against mistaking the container for the content. When you are absorbed in a system, an institution, or an ideology — even a beautiful one — ask whether you are worshipping the field (prakriti/aksara) or the one who exceeds it (Hari). The most rigorous practice, for Madhva, is not mystical merger but the precision to know the difference between the All and the All-Surpassing.",
  "śuddhādvaita": "Vallabha's contrast is a rebuke to impersonal spirituality. If your meditation practice leaves you feeling vast but untouched — spacious but unmoved by anyone's particular face — that may be aksara-worship, not Krsna-worship. Pusti-marga asks: does your practice make you more available to the specific, the personal, the playful? The aksara never moves; the Lord dances. Adjust your practice accordingly.",
  "bhakti": "Sridhara's practical note is the hardest: this path reaches the goal, but it is more difficult (kleshah adhikataras). Before choosing a maximally abstract spiritual practice — pure awareness, formless meditation, non-dual investigation — honestly assess whether the difficulty serves depth or is a way of avoiding the vulnerability of loving something specific. Both paths are real; choose with open eyes.",
  "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusudana's seven-step analysis of why aksara cannot be named (no genus, no quality, no action) is also a map for how to listen without projection. In any difficult conversation, before you label what someone is — 'she is defensive,' 'he is insecure' — ask whether your category even fits. The awareness that precedes all labeling is itself anirdesya. Renunciation (abhayam sarvabhutebhyo datva) begins with giving others the freedom not to be your concept of them."
 },
 "primary_meaning": "Those who worship the imperishable — unspecifiable, unmanifest, all-pervading, unthinkable, the changeless and eternal ground of all — they too reach Me, though by a harder road."
}