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    "extraction_date": "2026-04-21",
    "score_methodology_documented_at": "Paper 1, Section II.B",
    "word_by_word_parser": "ByT5-Sanskrit-multitask (Nehrdich/Hellwig/Keutzer EMNLP 2024)",
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  "so_what_questions": [
    "If Bhagavān ranks the four kinds of devotees, does this mean approaching Him with a personal need is spiritually inferior — or is need-based devotion a legitimate entry point that can mature into jñāna?",
    "Śaṅkara's reading collapses the mutual prīti into ātman-identity; Rāmānuja insists on an irreducible personal love between distinct beings — which interpretation does the grammar of 'sa ca mama priyaḥ' ('he too is dear to Me') actually support?",
    "The jñānī is described as nityayukta (perpetually united) — is this a gradual attainment, or does genuine tattva-jñāna (knowledge of reality) produce perpetual union instantaneously?",
    "Madhva's ekabhakti rules out devotion toward any deity other than Hari — how does this intersect with popular practice that includes Śiva, Devī, or Gaṇeśa pūjā (worship) within a broadly Vaiṣṇava household?",
    "Vallabha's nirapekkṣā (unconditional) bhakti sounds like it should be rare; yet verse 7.16 implies many jñānīs exist among the four types — how does Puṣṭi-mārga explain this apparent democratization of the highest state?",
    "Madhusūdana says the jñānī excels because niṣkāmatā produces prema-ādhikya (surplus love) — does this mean desire-renunciation is instrumentally useful for intensifying love, or is it love's natural overflow?",
    "All six schools agree the jñānī is supremely dear to Bhagavān — does Bhagavān's 'preference' imply partiality inconsistent with His role as impartial Paramātman, and how does each school resolve the tension?"
  ],
  "everyday_applications": {
    "advaita": "When a difficult colleague irritates you, try locating the awareness that perceives the irritation — that witnessing space is the same in you and in them. Resting in that shared ātman-ground is the daily practice of the jñānī's non-separate prīti: you begin to find the person dear not despite their faults but because their awareness and yours are non-different.",
    "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Keep a single recurring appointment in your calendar titled simply 'Bhagavān' — not for a specific petition, not tied to any outcome you want. Show up to it even when nothing is pressing. That unconditional, outcome-unlinked showing-up is Rāmānuja's nityayoga in miniature: the connection that does not expire when your wish is granted.",
    "dvaita": "When you sit down to eat, work, or rest, briefly name the activity as offered to Hari alone — not to your reputation, not to your family's approval, not to Lakṣmī as wealth-goddess. Madhva's ekabhakti practiced here means refusing to split your dedication across multiple beneficiaries. The practice sharpens intention and exposes how often ordinary action serves a second master.",
    "śuddhādvaita": "Choose one creative or professional project and work on it today with zero thought of how it will be received — no imagined audience, no mental rehearsal of praise. Vallabha's nirapekkṣā bhakti applied to work means acting because Kṛṣṇa's prāṇaśakti (life-energy) is moving through you right now, not because an outcome awaits. Notice how the quality of attention shifts.",
    "bhakti": "Each morning, before checking messages, spend five minutes in a single-pointed practice of your choosing — mantra, breath, or silent sitting — with the explicit aim of reducing citta-vikṣepa (mental distraction). Śrīdhara's logic is that ekānta-bhakti becomes structurally possible only as vikṣepa decreases; the morning five minutes is the hygiene that enables the rest of the day's devotion.",
    "advaita-bhakti": "Identify one area where you are still secretly transactional in your spiritual life — praying for health, status, or relationship outcomes. Madhusūdana's synthesis invites you to notice the desire, set it aside as kāma that limits prema, and reframe your practice for one week as purely expressive rather than petitionary. Observe whether the quality of love in the practice changes when expectation is removed."
  },
  "primary_meaning": "Of these four, the knower of truth stands highest, always united and devoted to nothing else. I am beyond measure dear to that knower, and that knower is beyond measure dear to me."
}