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    "devanāgarī": "दैवी ह्य् एषा गुण-मयी मम माया दुरत्यया | माम् एव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायाम् एतां तरन्ति ते",
    "iast": "daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā | mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṃ taranti te",
    "chapter_position": "Chapter 7 (Jñāna-Vijñāna-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge and Realization)), verse 14",
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          "sense": "हीति। दैवी अलौकिकी अत्यद्भुतेत्यर्थः। गुणमयी सत्त्वादिगुणविकारात्मिका मम परमेश्वरस्य शक्तिर्माया दुरत्यया दुस्तरा। हि प",
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      "surface_form": "mayī",
      "lemma": "maya",
      "grammar": "nominative feminine singular noun",
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      "english_rendering": "This māyā, the Lord's own sovereign power (māyāvin — one who wields māyā), is constituted of the three guṇas and therefore nearly impossible to cross (duratyayā — hard to traverse) by one's own effort alone. Yet those who abandon all fragmentary supports and take refuge entirely in the Ātman that is Bhagavān — not in any object māyā projects — they cross it, meaning they are liberated from saṃsāra-bondage altogether. The escape is not by working against māyā but by recognising its wielder as one's own true Self (svātmabhūtam — identical with the Self).",
      "divergence_note": "Śaṅkara: 'mām eva māyāvinaṃ svātmabhūtaṃ sarvātmanā ye prapadyante te māyām etāṃ tanti saṃsārabandhānāt mucyante' — liberation = recognition of the māyā-wielder as one's own Self."
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      "english_rendering": "Bhagavān's māyā is not illusion (māyā-śabda is not mithyārtha-vācī — not a word denoting falsehood); it is the real, wondrous, sport-born power by which the Lord veils His own form of unbounded joy (anavadhikātiśayānanda-svarūpam) and instils in each jīva a false sense of being its own independent enjoyer. Those who surrender to the supremely compassionate Lord — who is 'the refuge of all without distinction' (aśeṣa-loka-śaraṇyam) — are freed from this veil and come to worship Him alone. Prapatti here is not a philosophical stance but a living relationship: the jīva ceasing to self-appropriate and serving the Lord as kainkarya.",
      "divergence_note": "Rāmānuja: 'māyāvimocano-pāyam āha — māṃ eva satyasaṃkalpaṃ paramakāruṇikam aśeṣaloka-śaraṇyaṃ ye prapadyante te etāṃ madīyāṃ māyāṃ taranti' — surrender to the compassionate Lord, not abstract nirvikalpa, crosses māyā."
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      "english_rendering": "Māyā is the sport-born, eternally real power of Viṣṇu; the term daivī (divine, pertaining to the Deva who plays — dīvū krīḍā-vijigīṣā) confirms it is Hari's own attribute, wielded by Śrī, Bhū, and Durgā as distinct Vaiṣṇavī śakti. Even Brahma and Rudra cannot transcend it without Viṣṇu's grace (vinā Viṣṇu-prasādataḥ); all other means are entirely dependent on the Lord's will. Only those who surrender every act — including prostration to guru — as offering to Hari, seeing the guru himself as Hari's form, truly cross māyā.",
      "divergence_note": "Madhva cites Vyāsa-yoga: 'ananta-brahma-rudrāder nāsyāḥ śakti-kalā'pi hi / teṣāṃ duratyayā'py eṣā vinā Viṣṇu-prasādataḥ' — no cosmic being crosses without Viṣṇu's personal grace."
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      "english_rendering": "The three guṇas — sattva, rajas, tamas — are themselves the bonding mechanism that conceals Kṛṣṇa's svarūpa and makes the jīva's avidyā-imposed superimposition (adhyāsa) rigid; removing them by one's own effort is futile because vidyā and avidyā are mutually opposed (anyonya-vairiṇau) and no human śāstra-path dissolves the superimposition entirely. The eva-kāra in māṃ eva is decisive: it rules out jñāna, karma, and all other paths as independently sufficient because all are Bhagavad-adhīna (dependent on Bhagavān). Only the one who surrenders to Kṛṣṇa Puruṣottama via prapatti-mārga, fully trusting in His prasāda, crosses māyā — and such a devotee is nirguṇa by that very crossing.",
      "divergence_note": "Vallabha: 'eva-kāreṇa sarvesām anupāyatvaṃ āha jñānādīnāṃ sarvesāṃ bhagavad-adhīnatvāt' — the eva-kāra explicitly excludes jñāna and all other paths as self-sufficient."
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      "english_rendering": "This māyā is daivī — supramundane, extraordinarily wondrous — because it is the power of Parameśvara Himself, not a merely human or cosmic enchantment; it is constituted of the modifications of the three guṇas and is therefore dusta-tarā (very hard to cross). Yet those who worship the Lord with avyabhicāriṇī bhakti — unwavering, non-promiscuous devotion (avyabhicāriṇī — not straying toward any other object) — indicated by the eva-kāra, cross even this formidable māyā and thereby come to know Him. The crossing of māyā and the knowledge of Bhagavān are a single event.",
      "divergence_note": "Śrīdhara: 'tathāpi ye māṃ evety eva-kāreṇa avyabhicāriṇyā bhaktyā prapadyante bhajanti te māyām etāṃ dustarāṃ api taranti — tato māṃ jānantīti bhāvaḥ' — crossing māyā = knowing Bhagavān."
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      "english_rendering": "The jīva is a reflected consciousness (pratibimba — reflection of the bimba-Īśvara) whose antaḥkaraṇa-upādhi generates the entire experience of bondage; just as a face's ornamentation placed on the mirror image must actually be applied to the real face, all puruṣārtha (human ends) offered to the Lord as bimba are received by the jīva-pratibimba automatically — no independent path to liberation exists. Māyā is crossed not by philosophical inquiry alone but by ceaseless, loving worship of the Bhagavān-as-bimba, which purifies the antaḥkaraṇa until it becomes a perfectly clear mirror reflecting the non-dual truth. The synthesis: bhakti is the efficient cause; jñāna of bimba-pratibimba non-difference is the final moment.",
      "divergence_note": "Madhusūdana: 'bimba-samarpitasya pratibimbe pratiphalanāt sarvān api puruṣārthān āsādayati' — whatever is offered to the Lord-as-bimba is received by the jīva-as-pratibimba; bhakti is the mirror-polishing."
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  "so_what_questions": [
    "If māyā is Bhagavān's own power and He alone can lift it, does human free will play any role in crossing it — or is the act of prapadyante (taking refuge) itself His grace operating through the jīva?",
    "The verse says 'māṃ eva' — only Me. Does this mean all other deities, teachers, and practices are dead ends, or does it mean all valid paths secretly resolve to this one surrender?",
    "Advaita reads prapadyante as surrender to one's own ātman; Viśiṣṭādvaita reads it as surrender to a personal Bhagavān who is ontologically distinct from the jīva. Can both be true simultaneously, or does the verse force a choice?",
    "Since māyā veils Bhagavān's own form, why did He install this veil in the first place — is the cosmos a cosmic game (līlā), an instrument of gradual purification, or something else?",
    "What is the practical phenomenology of 'crossing māyā'? Is it a sudden event (like Śaṅkara's ātma-sākṣātkāra) or a gradual loosening (like Rāmānuja's steady kainkarya)? Do these schools predict different experiential signatures?",
    "The verse does not say māyā is destroyed — only that the devotee 'crosses' it (taranti). Is māyā still present after crossing, simply no longer binding? What is the status of the phenomenal world for the liberated being?",
    "Madhva anchors crossing māyā entirely in Viṣṇu's prasāda (grace); Vallabha's eva-kāra excludes all independent means. Is this difference merely verbal, or does it predict different devotional practices and attitudes toward self-effort?"
  ],
  "everyday_applications": {
    "advaita": "When you notice yourself over-identifying with a role — parent, professional, patient — pause and ask: 'Who is aware of this role?' The awareness that witnesses the role is the svātman in which Bhagavān abides. Every such pause is a small act of prapadyante; accumulated, it loosens māyā's grip without requiring retreat from ordinary life.",
    "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Before a difficult conversation or decision, consciously dedicate the act as kainkarya — service to Bhagavān who is the inner Self of all parties. This is not a ritual formula but a genuine reorientation: you are not the owner of the outcome, only the instrument. The Rāmānuja tradition calls this prapatti as a living posture, not a one-time event.",
    "dvaita": "When you encounter a teacher, mentor, or elder who seems to deserve your gratitude, offer that gratitude upward to Hari — 'the guru is here because Hari placed him here for me.' This is not an evasion of human relationship but its deepening: the Dvaita practitioner sees Hari's fingerprints in every benefactor, maintaining a vertical orientation even in horizontal relationships.",
    "śuddhādvaita": "Drop the project of self-improvement by accumulation of merits or insights. Instead, offer the day — its successes and failures alike — as prasāda returned to Kṛṣṇa. The Puṣṭi-mārga practitioner does not try to reduce guṇa-bondage by personal effort (which Vallabha's text flags as impossible); instead they make Kṛṣṇa's grace the only operative variable by total relaxation into His will.",
    "bhakti": "Check whether your devotional practice is avyabhicāriṇī — non-straying. The test is not intensity but consistency of direction: does your attention return, again and again, to Bhagavān as the primary orientation, or does it scatter across competing objects of dedication? Śrīdhara's reading makes the quality of the bhakti — its non-promiscuity — the decisive variable, not its emotional pitch.",
    "advaita-bhakti": "Use the mirror metaphor practically: whatever you sincerely offer to Bhagavān — attention, gratitude, sorrow, achievement — is reflected back as grace in your own experience. You cannot bypass this by private philosophical insight alone; the mirror must be polished through sustained bhakti before the non-dual truth becomes self-luminous. So the daily practice is not debate but worship, while keeping the philosophical understanding alive as the orienting frame."
  },
  "primary_meaning": "This divine māyā of mine, woven from the three guṇas, is nearly impossible to cross — yet those who take refuge in me alone pass beyond it."
}