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  "devanāgarī": "पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान् पृथग्विधान् | वेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम्",
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 "so_what_questions": [
  "If rajasic knowledge correctly perceives real differences (Visistadvaita affirms jiva-plurality is real) — what exactly makes such perception rajasic rather than accurate? Is rajasa a defect of the perceiver or of the knowledge-object?",
  "Madhusudana lists five bheda-s (differences) as rajasic targets — does this mean Dvaita and Visistadvaita, which affirm some of these bheda-s as ultimate, are grounded in rajasic jnana by the Advaita reading? How would Madhva respond?",
  "Sridhara anchors rajasic knowledge in perceiving kshetrajna-s (knowers-of-the-field) as many and experientially differentiated — does this mean phenomenal self-awareness (awareness of being happy or sad) is itself a rajasic cognitive act?",
  "Vallabha calls the verse 'self-evident' (spastam) — is this a deliberate hermeneutic move, suggesting the verse needs no elaboration because all prthaktva (separation) is already understood within lila-cosmology?",
  "The verse does not say the knowledge is false — only that it is rajasic. In what sense can epistemically accurate knowledge about real distinctions still be spiritually obstructing?",
  "Sankara notes a grammatical irregularity: the verse uses the knowledge as agent ('yat jnanam vetti') though properly the knowing-instrument cannot be an agent. Why would Krsna encode a grammatical solecism here, and what does it signal about how rajas distorts cognitive structure itself?",
  "Across all six schools, none denies that bodily differences exist — the debate is about the level at which perception should rest. Is the Gita here making a claim about cognitive architecture (where attention terminates) rather than ontology (what is real)?"
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  "advaita": "When you walk into a room and immediately categorize everyone present — this person is successful, that one is struggling, these are my kind, those are not — you are running rajasic jnana (knowledge). The Sankara application: notice the moment your perceiving-instrument begins multiplying separateness and treat it as a signal that ahamkara (the I-maker) is active. Practice pausing before the categorization completes.",
  "visistadvaita": "In a team or organization, rajasic knowledge is the knowledge that sees only roles and performance-tiers but misses that each person is equally a jiva held within Bhagavan's body. The Ramanuja application: before making a judgment about someone's fitness or eligibility, ask whether your assessment accounts only for their function or also for their dignity as sarira (body) of the divine.",
  "dvaita": "When you manage or lead and you see the differences between people — talent, capacity, discipline — as self-explaining facts that justify your decisions, you are in rajasic-knowledge mode. The Dvaita application: acknowledge real differences (Madhva insists they are real) but refer each judgment back to whether it honors Hari's placement of each jiva in its dharmic station. Judgment that stops at observed difference without this referral is rajasic.",
  "suddhAdvaita": "When a family celebration or creative work feels divided by individual preferences and competing needs, rajasic knowledge is what fragments the occasion into separate agendas. The Pustimarga application: see the plurality of moods and participants as Krsna's self-differentiation in lila — the variety is His play, not an obstacle. Perceiving separateness without this ground is what makes knowledge rajasic.",
  "bhakti": "In any caregiving role — parenting, teaching, therapy — it is necessary to see each person as differently constituted (sukhi-duhkhi, the joyful or suffering one). Sridhara's application: this differential perception is required but should not become your final frame. Rajasic knowledge treats the variety of experiential states as the endpoint; bhakti-grounded knowledge uses that variety as the map to better serve each person's actual condition.",
  "advaita-bhakti": "When conflicts arise between people who are genuinely different — different in values, capacity, or circumstance — the mind generates five kinds of narratives about how they are separate. Madhusudana's application: when you notice you are running any of the five-bheda (five-difference) narratives — they are different from me, I am different from the divine, they are different from the divine — pause and ask whether that narrative is serving clarity or is simply the kutarka (false reasoning) of a rajas-conditioned mind insisting on its own categories."
 },
 "primary_meaning": "Knowledge that sees each creature as a separately-natured self, missing the single reality that holds them all, is rajasic."
}