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    "devanāgarī": "जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यम् एवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः | त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर् जन्म नैति माम् एति सो ऽर्जुन",
    "iast": "janma karma ca me divyam evaṃ yo vetti tattvataḥ | tyaktvā dehaṃ punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna",
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      "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)",
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      "english_rendering": "Kṛṣṇa's birth (janma) is māyā-rūpa (of the nature of māyā) — not a real entry into saṃsāra but its sovereign enactment for the protection of the virtuous; his karma likewise is aishvara (lordly), wholly beyond the prakṛta (natural). Śaṅkara insists that 'knowing this tattvatah (in its real nature)' is jñāna itself — the cognition dissolves the superimposition of ordinary birth on the birthless Ātman. That dissolution is mukti: the knower, having abandoned the body's false identification, does not re-enter embodied becoming but arrives at Brahman, which is none other than 'mām' (me) — the non-dual ground the seeker already is.",
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      "english_rendering": "For Rāmānuja the verse is a soteriological guarantee grounded in Bhagavān's utter distinctness from all conditioned existence: his janma is free from the triguṇa-prakṛti contact that causes ordinary rebirth, and his karma flows entirely from his satyasaṅkalpa (true will) and kalya̤ṇaguṇas (auspicious qualities). Knowing this tattvatah eradicates the accumulated pāpa that obstructs śaraṇāgati (surrender), so that even within this very birth the devotee, having taken Bhagavān as sole refuge, advances toward mām — direct experience of the qualified Brahman who is Viṣṇu. The verse thus converts śāstric understanding into bhakti-yoga kinesis: insight is not merely cognitive but a love-act that draws the jīva into the Lord's own being.",
      "divergence_note": "viddhvastasamestamatsamāśrayaṇavirōdhi-pāpmā asminneva janmani … māmeva prāpnoti — Rāmānuja bhāṣya"
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      "english_rendering": "Madhva reads the liberation-promise here as conditional on sarvajñāna (complete knowledge) — knowing Hari's janma and karma tattvatah is not a partial doctrinal acquaintance but a comprehensive upāsanā rooted in Vedic revelation. He cites the Mahākaurma-purāṇa: only the one who knows and worships Hari as scripture enjoins will receive his darśana; no other path reaches him. The qualifier 'tattvatah' thus entails the entire Vedic-Vaiṣṇava sādhana — jīva and Brahman remain eternally distinct (bhedābheda rejected), so 'māmeti' means the jīva arrives at Hari's proximity in mokṣa, not identity.",
      "divergence_note": "vedādyuktaṃ tu sarvaṃ yo jñātvopāste sadā hi māṃ … nānyasya kasyacit — Mahākaurma-citation in Madhva bhāṣya"
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      "english_rendering": "Vallabha distinguishes three modes of janma: anitya (impermanent, ordinary), nitya-paricchinna (eternal-but-limited), and nityāparicchinna-tanu-prākaṭya (manifestation of the eternal-unlimited body). Kṛṣṇa's avatāra belongs only to the third — a voluntary, icchā-rūpa (will-formed) prākaṭya of the ānandamaya-puruṣa who is eternally whole with body-mind-life-intellect as modalities of sat-cit-ānanda. Knowing this dissolves the error of treating Bhagavān's form as pāñcabhautika (five-elemental); the knower who abandons the prākṛta body receives that very saccidānanda-svarūpa and reaches 'mām' — not an abstract Brahman but the full, form-bearing Puruṣottama of Vṛndāvana.",
      "divergence_note": "nityāparicchinna-tanoh prākaṭyam eva janmatvena … ānandamayo'bhyāsāt — Vallabha bhāṣya"
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      "english_rendering": "Śrīdhara Svāmī holds the verse's center of gravity in the word 'divyam' (divine, non-ordinary): Kṛṣṇa's birth is svecchā-kṛta (self-willed) and his karma is dharma-pālana-rūpa (the protection of dharma) — both causally disconnected from the karma-nexus that binds jīvas. The one who grasps this 'tattvatah (in truth)' relinquishes dehābhimāna (body-identification), the root obstruction, and reaches Bhagavān directly. Śrīdhara's reading is economical and devotionally pointed: the theological argument is the least one needs; what liberates is the surrender of the 'I-am-the-body' error in the light of Kṛṣṇa's svātantrya (absolute independence).",
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  "so_what_questions": [
    "Does 'knowing tattvatah' require scriptural study alone, or does it also require a transformative inner event — and how do the schools draw that line differently?",
    "If Kṛṣṇa's birth is 'divyam' (divine) and not conditioned by karma, what exactly makes it 'birth' at all, and why does the verse use the same word (janma) for both Kṛṣṇa and the jīva's cycle?",
    "The verse promises 'no rebirth' (na punarjanma) — is this a promise of annihilation, absorption, proximity, or transformed embodiment, and how does each school's answer reflect its metaphysics?",
    "Madhva insists partial knowledge is insufficient; Śrīdhara requires only the dissolution of dehābhimāna — which standard is more demanding in practice, and can the same practitioner satisfy both?",
    "If liberation follows simply from correct understanding (yo vetti), why do the traditions demand lifetimes of sādhana — is the 'knowing' in this verse the same thing as ordinary intellectual knowing?",
    "Vallabha argues Kṛṣṇa's body is nityāparicchinna (eternal-unlimited), not five-elemental — how does that claim interact with the narrative of Kṛṣṇa's physical vulnerability (e.g., the hunter's arrow)?",
    "Madhusūdana synthesizes jñāna and bhakti by saying jñāna removes the screen and bhakti reveals the form — but if the screen is gone, what sustains the distinction between devotee and beloved?"
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    "advaita": "When you catch yourself treating a role — parent, professional, patient — as your ultimate identity, pause and ask whether you are the knower behind all roles. Practice recognising each moment of detached action as janma-free karma: done completely, released completely, leaving no residue of 'mine.'",
    "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Before a demanding task or difficult conversation, explicitly dedicate the action as kainkarya (service) to Bhagavān rather than personal achievement. Notice how reframing agency shifts the emotional stake — anxiety belongs to a self-project; kainkarya belongs to the Lord's project.",
    "dvaita": "Maintain a daily practice of Vedic or Vaiṣṇava pāṭha (recitation/study) not as supplemental activity but as the primary cognitive act orienting all others. Madhva's reading insists that comprehensive scriptural knowledge is the vehicle of liberation — treat textual learning as devotional worship, not academic exercise.",
    "śuddhādvaita": "When you encounter beauty — a child's face, music, a landscape — receive it as a fragment of Kṛṣṇa's prākaṭya (manifestation), not a stimulus to be processed. Vallabha's teaching is that the world is a medium of Kṛṣṇa's self-disclosure; train perception to remain at the register of delight (ānanda) rather than utility.",
    "bhakti": "Identify one recurring area where dehābhimāna (body-identification) drives reactive behavior — self-protection, status anxiety, pleasure-seeking. Choose one week to act in that area as if the real subject were Bhagavān's instrument, not the body's advocate. Śrīdhara's minimum condition for liberation is exactly this single shift.",
    "advaita-bhakti": "Use the verse as a morning contemplation: 'The error I carry is treating the limited as ultimate. What is actually present is saccidānanda.' Then, without collapsing into abstraction, name the personal form you love — Vāsudeva, Rāma, Devī — and let the contemplation land there. Madhusūdana's synthesis is precisely this: clear away the superimposition, meet the beloved face-to-face."
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  "primary_meaning": "Whoever truly knows my birth and actions to be divine leaves the body without returning to another birth and comes to me, Arjuna."
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