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    "scope": "mūla.devanāgarī — spaces reinserted using word_by_word surface fields as source of truth",
    "loci": [
     "यावान्यश्चास्मि -> यावान् यश्चास्मि"
    ]
   },
   {
    "date": "2026-05-03",
    "fix": "verb-lemma-misidentification (broader heuristic: prefix-√root canonical for all verb-tagged tokens)",
    "scope": "word_by_word[].lemma",
    "loci": [
     "asmi: as -> √as",
     "viśate: viś -> √viś"
    ]
   },
   {
    "kind": "qmark_artifact_repair",
    "applied_at": "2026-05-08T01:56:15.037374Z",
    "applied_by": "summon-web/scripts/repair_qmark_artifacts.py",
    "n_senses_repaired": 2,
    "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"
   }
  ]
 },
 "so_what_questions": [
  "If Shankara reads bhakti here as jnana-nistha itself, what does that do to the standard jnana-vs-bhakti opposition — is the opposition a pedagogical scaffold that this verse dismantles?",
  "Ramanuja insists bhakti is BOTH the means of knowing AND the cause of entering; Shankara insists knowing and entering are one act. Which reading makes better sense of the grammar of 'tatah... vishate tad-anantaram' — is 'then' temporal or merely explanatory?",
  "Vallabha specifies nirguna-vishayaka bhakti directed at Purushottama who is nonetheless surrounded by lila-parikara. How does a 'nirguna' Lord have play-companions — and what does this do to the standard nirguna/saguna divide?",
  "Sridhara says even the knowledge subsides in entry. Madhusudan says the body persists till prarabdha is exhausted. Are these compatible pictures of what 'entering' means, or do they describe different stages of the same process?",
  "The verse's yavan yash ca — 'as great as I am AND as I am' — is read by Shankara as conditioned-extent versus unconditioned nature, by Ramanuja as svarupa+svabhava+guna+vibhuti. Which parsing preserves more of the verse's own polysemy?",
  "Madhva's absence from the bhashya panel here is itself data: does the verse's phrasing — bhaktya mam abhijanati — create a doctrinal pressure that a strict Dvaita reading of permanent jiva-Ishvara distinction finds difficult to accommodate without special pleading?",
  "All six schools agree bhakti is necessary; they disagree on whether it is sufficient, whether it is identical with jnana, and what 'entry' means. Is this a convergence on method with divergence on metaphysics — and which matters more for practice?"
 ],
 "everyday_applications": {
  "advaita": "When you are so absorbed in a task that the sense of a separate 'doer' drops away — the programmer who forgets herself in the code, the musician who no longer hears himself play — that absorption is the bhakti-as-jnana-nistha this verse names. The practice: notice those moments of self-forgetfulness and recognize them as glimpses, not accidents.",
  "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Knowing someone 'tattvatah' means knowing their full reality — their nature, their character, their range, their glory — not just their usefulness to you. In any relationship, practice moving from 'what does this person do for me' to 'who is this person entirely'; that expansion of knowing is itself an act of bhakti and the ground of real intimacy.",
  "dvaita": "Healthy dependence is not weakness. A team member who clearly knows her role, her manager's authority, and the organization's mission — and works within that with full commitment rather than resentment — is practicing the dvaita wisdom of this verse: knowing the real structure and serving it wholeheartedly.",
  "śuddhādvaita": "The Pushti-marga reading says entry into the Lord includes being drawn into His lila. Applied: when work stops feeling like obligation and starts feeling like play you were made for — when you are 'avishta,' pervaded by something larger than your own agenda — that is the signal Vallabha is pointing at. Cultivate conditions where that can happen rather than grinding through duty alone.",
  "bhakti": "Sridhara's reading ends with 'even knowledge subsides; one becomes ananda itself.' The everyday pointer: there are moments — in music, in prayer, in nature, in grief — where analysis stops and something simply is. That cessation of commentary is not ignorance; it is the far shore of knowing. Do not rush back to concepts when you reach it.",
  "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusudan's jivanmukti frame says: the ajnana is destroyed now, but the body continues until prarabdha runs out. Applied: resolution of a deep confusion or grief does not immediately reshape your circumstances — the old patterns persist for a while by momentum. The practice is to distinguish 'the ignorance is gone' from 'the consequences are gone' and not mistake lingering consequences for evidence that nothing has changed."
 },
 "primary_meaning": "Through devotion you come to know Me as I truly am, in full, and knowing Me that way, you enter Me."
}