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The ayukt (disintegrated one), driven by kāma-kāra (desire-impulse), clings to phala (fruit) and is bound — bound not by action itself but by the ahaṅkāra (I-maker) asserting 'I do this for my fruit.' Arjuna, therefore: become yukt — not as technique but as recognition that the only real agent is Brahman.", "divergence_note": "Śaṅkara glosses yukt as samāhita ('gathered into Īśvara'); the liberation-sequence — sattva-śuddhi → jñāna-prāpti → sarva-karma-saṃnyāsa → jñāna-niṣṭhā — is explicit in the bhāṣya. Kāma-kāra glossed as kāma-prerita ('desire-impelled')." }, "viśiṣṭādvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "ramanuja_5.12", "vedantadeshika_5.12" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The yukt is one whose attention is single-pointed toward ātman alone — ātmaika-pravaṇa (ātman-leaning), without the restless capering after external fruits; performing karma solely for ātma-śuddhi (self-purification), such a one reaches naiṣṭhikī śānti which is precisely ātmānubhava-rūpā nirvṛti — the settled joy of direct self-experience. The ayukt is ātmāvalokana-vimukha (turned away from self-beholding), caught in cāpalya (fickleness) toward external results, and therefore circulates perpetually in saṃsāra — nitya-saṃsārī (perennial transmigrator). The prescription follows: renounce action-as-fruit, take up action-as-self-liberation, until the ātman is liberated from bondage.", "divergence_note": "Rāmānuja distinguishes cāpalya (fickleness toward other-than-ātman fruits) vs ātmaika-pravaṇa; uses phrase ātmānubhava-rūpāṃ nirvṛtim directly. Nitya-saṃsārī is verbatim from the bhāṣya." }, "dvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "madhva_5.12", "jayatirtha_5.12" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "*Yuktaḥ karma-phalaṃ tyaktvā śāntim āpnoti naiṣṭhikīm | ayuktaḥ kāma-kāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate.* The verse is taken up *punar yuktyādi-niyamanārtham* — to establish again the rule (*niyama*) governing *yukta* and *ayukta* and their results. Madhva reads *yuktaḥ* as *yoga-yuktaḥ*: the one yoked to Bhagavān in the full sense. Jayatīrtha presses the logic further: *yuktiḥ yogaḥ*, and the *ādi-pada* in *yuktyādi* takes in *sannyāsa* as well — so *yukta-ayukta* is *upalakṣaṇa* (a representative pair) that also covers *sannyāsī* and *asannyāsī*. The governing *niyama* declared here is twofold. Earlier in the chapter, *sannyāsa* and *yoga* were shown to produce their fruit only in combination — *na anyatara-parityāgena anyataraḥ*, not either one alone when the other is abandoned — and that rule (*niyama-jñāpana*) was stated there. Now the present verse states a further rule: *tau eva mokṣa-sādhanam*, those two together are the means to liberation, *na tu tad-ubhaya-tyāgena anyat* — not some third path obtained by abandoning both. Hence the verse declares the fruits for the one who possesses *yoga-sannyāsa* and for the one who lacks both (*tad-ubhayābhāvavataḥ*): liberation (*mukti*) versus *saṃsāra-vistāra* (expansion of bondage). The *paratantra* *jīva* (eternally dependent individual self) who remains in conscious subordination to Hari attains *naiṣṭhikī śānti* — peace that is final; the *ayuktaḥ*, driven by *kāma-kāreṇa* (autonomous desire-impulse), clings to fruit and is bound.", "divergence_note": "Re-anchored to Madhva's *punar yuktyādi-niyamanārtham* and Jayatīrtha's extended niyama-analysis: *yuktiḥ yogaḥ*, *ādi-padena sannyāsaḥ*, *na anyatara-parityāgena anyataraḥ*, *tau eva mokṣa-sādhanam*, *na tad-ubhaya-tyāgena anyat*, and *mukti-saṃsāra-vistāra-lakṣaṇaṃ phalam*. Prior rendering summarized without quoting these moves." }, "śuddhādvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "vallabha_5.12" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "Yoga here is the channel through which karma becomes Kṛṣṇa's own līlā operating through the devotee; śānti is the fruit — but not the cold peace of extinction, rather the prasāda-śānti of one resting in Kṛṣṇa's will. The ayukt performs action with attachment to phala and so constructs bandha (bondage). Vallabha's brevity ('śāntiḥ phalaṃ tatra ca bandhaḥ') is itself the teaching: the contrast is stark and complete — yoga yields śānti, its absence yields bondage — and the only live question for the Puṣṭi-mārgī is whether one's every act is saturated with Kṛṣṇa's grace or not.", "divergence_note": "Vallabha's bhāṣya offers śāntiḥ phalaṃ tatra ca bandhaḥ verbatim — the rendering follows this binary closely." }, "bhakti": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "sridhara_5.12" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "Śrīdhara frames the verse as resolving a genuine puzzlement: how can the same karma liberate one and bind another? The answer: the yukt is parameśvara-eka-niṣṭha (singularly anchored in the Supreme Lord) — performing all karma while releasing phala — and thereby reaches ātyantikaī śānti (ultimate, unrevisable peace, i.e., mokṣa). The ayukt is bahirmukha (outward-turned), operating from kāma (desire), attached to phala, and falls into nataraṃ bandha (deeper bondage). The difference is not the action but the orientation of the performer: toward the Lord or away from Him.", "divergence_note": "Śrīdhara explicitly frames the verse as answering 'how is it that the same action liberates one and binds another?' — parameśvara-eka-niṣṭha and bahirmukha are verbatim. Ātyantikaī śānti glossed as mokṣa." }, "advaita-bhakti": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "madhusudan_5.12" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "Madhusūdana opens with the precise philosophical problem: even granting equal kartṛtva-abhimāna (ego-ownership of action) in two performers, why does the same action liberate one and bind the other? The answer: the yukt holds the inner resolution 'these actions are for Īśvara alone, not for my fruit' — and from this sattva-śuddhi (purity of being), nityānityavastu-viveka (discrimination between eternal and passing), saṃnyāsa, jñāna, and niṣṭhā follow in sequence. The ayukt, devoid of this abhiprāya (intention-orientation toward Īśvara), acts from desire and is bound into saṃsāra-bandha. The synthesis: Kṛṣṇa-oriented intention is the jñāna-generating catalyst — bhakti as the precondition for Advaitic liberation.", "divergence_note": "Madhusūdana uses 'kartṛtvābhimāna-sāmye api' as the philosophical framing; the liberation-sequence (sattva-śuddhi → viveka → saṃnyāsa → jñāna-niṣṭhā) is verbatim from his bhāṣya. 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Is it internal intention alone, or does the quality of the action itself carry moral weight?", "Śaṅkara's liberation-sequence runs sattva-śuddhi → jñāna → saṃnyāsa → niṣṭhā: does this mean karma-yoga is merely instrumental (a ladder to be kicked away), or does it have intrinsic value in the Advaita reading?", "Rāmānuja's ātmānubhava-rūpā nirvṛti (settled joy of self-experience) differs from Śaṅkara's mokṣa-as-dissolution: is the 'peace' (śānti) of the verse the same referent for both schools, or are they pointing at structurally different states?", "Madhva's brevity here — two lines where others write paragraphs — raises a hermeneutic question: does compression signal that the verse is self-evident from a dvaitika standpoint, or that the real doctrinal weight is carried elsewhere in the Gītā for Madhva?", "Śrīdhara's bahirmukha (outward-turned) versus parameśvara-eka-niṣṭha (inward-anchored in the Lord) suggests that bondage is primarily an attentional phenomenon. What are the practical implications: can attention itself be trained, or does it require grace?", "Madhusūdana identifies abhiprāya (operative intention oriented toward Īśvara) as the differentiating variable. How does this relate to modern concepts of motivation in psychology — is 'intrinsic motivation' a secular approximation of yukt-ness, or does it miss the theological grounding?", "Across all six schools the ayukt is bound by desire-driven action, but the prescriptions diverge: jñāna-path (Śaṅkara), ātma-darśana (Rāmānuja), Hari-dependence (Madhva), Kṛṣṇa-prasāda (Vallabha), Lord-orientation (Śrīdhara), Kṛṣṇa-intention (Madhusūdana). Is this genuine doctrinal divergence about the mechanism of freedom, or are these descriptions of the same state from different vantage points?" ], "everyday_applications": { "advaita": "Before a high-stakes work deliverable, pause and reframe the internal statement from 'I need this to succeed for my reputation' to 'this is Īśvara's work through this instrument.' The action remains identical; the ahaṅkāra-claim on the fruit is severed. Notice whether anxiety about outcomes decreases — not because outcomes don't matter but because the 'I' staking itself on them has loosened its grip. This is sattva-śuddhi in office hours.", "viśiṣṭādvaita": "At the start of any task — cooking, parenting, professional work — ask: 'Am I doing this from ātma-pravaṇa (self-stabilized orientation) or from cāpalya (nervous grabbing at outcomes)?' The Rāmānuja instruction is not to suppress desire but to redirect attention: toward the ātman doing the work rather than the external fruit the action might produce. This shift from result-fixation to process-presence is the concrete form of karma-yoga in daily life.", "dvaita": "When making a decision that feels weighty — career choice, relationship action, ethical dilemma — the dvaitika practice is to bring Hari explicitly into the frame: 'I am the instrument; the outcome belongs to Bhagavān.' This is not fatalism but dependent agency — acting with full effort while releasing the illusion of autonomous control over results. The jīva who forgets this dependence and acts as sovereign creates bondage; the jīva who remembers it acts freely.", "śuddhādvaita": "Puṣṭi-mārga practice here is saturation: every act of the day — waking, eating, working, resting — is offered as seva (loving service) in Kṛṣṇa's līlā. The contrast Vallabha compresses into one line (śānti vs bandha) maps onto lived experience: acts offered in this spirit carry a quality of ease and rest; acts performed with anxious fruit-attachment carry a quality of tightness and depletion. The practice is to notice this difference and let it be the self-correcting signal.", "bhakti": "Śrīdhara's parameśvara-eka-niṣṭha (single-pointed orientation toward the Lord) translates into a practice of maintaining a background orientation throughout the day — not a constant explicit thought but a settled reference point. In conflict or difficulty, bahirmukha (outward-turning) means scanning the external situation obsessively for a fix; parameśvara-niṣṭha means returning to the inner anchor before responding. The difference is not in what you do but in where you stand when you do it.", "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusūdana's key variable is abhiprāya — operative intention. The everyday practice is to cultivate a clear, prior intention before acting: 'This is for Kṛṣṇa's purposes, not for the fruit I am imagining.' This is not self-deception about wanting outcomes but a reorientation of what the action is fundamentally for. Over time this repeated abhiprāya-setting produces sattva-śuddhi (clarification of being) and begins to generate the viveka (discernment) that Advaita needs — bhakti here is the engine that runs the jñāna process from the inside." }, "primary_meaning": "The disciplined person renounces the fruits of action and reaches lasting peace; the undisciplined one, driven by desire and clinging to results, only tightens the knot." }