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   "mūla": "Belvalkar critical edition (BORI 1947), via Ambuda multi-witness",
   "panel_witnesses": [
    "bg-mula",
    "bg-shankara",
    "bg-ramanuja",
    "bg-madhva",
    "bg-vedantadeshika",
    "bg-vallabha",
    "bg-jayatirtha",
    "bg-anandgiri",
    "bg-sridhara",
    "bg-madhusudan"
   ]
  },
  "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)",
  "post_generation_repairs": [
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    "date": "2026-05-03",
    "fix": "verb-lemma-misidentification (broader heuristic: prefix-√root canonical for all verb-tagged tokens)",
    "scope": "word_by_word[].lemma",
    "loci": [
     "asti: as -> √as",
     "bhajanti: bhaj -> √bhaj"
    ]
   },
   {
    "kind": "qmark_artifact_repair",
    "applied_at": "2026-05-08T01:56:15.082629Z",
    "applied_by": "summon-web/scripts/repair_qmark_artifacts.py",
    "n_senses_repaired": 8,
    "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"
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  ]
 },
 "so_what_questions": [
  "If the Lord is genuinely sama (equal) toward all beings, what exactly does bhakti (devotion) add — does it change the Lord or change the worshipper?",
  "Madhva distinguishes conscious from unconscious modes of being held in the Lord's sway; does this mean Śiśupāla and Uddhava are equally 'saved' — and if so, what is the point of deliberate practice?",
  "Madhusūdana's mirror-metaphor places all causality in the antaḥkaraṇa (inner instrument); does this make the Lord a passive reflector, and how does that square with Rāmānuja's image of Bhagavān actively abiding in the devotee?",
  "If Bhagavān is bhakta-parādhīna (dependent on the devotee) in Vallabha's reading, does divine omnipotence become conditional — and is that a problem or a feature of the Puṣṭi-mārga (path of sustenance)?",
  "Śaṅkara's fire-analogy implies that the non-devotee remains cold not through divine neglect but through their own distance; what responsibility does this place on the practitioner who claims to seek liberation?",
  "The six schools agree on the verse's grammar but produce genuinely different accounts of what 'mutual indwelling' (mayi te teṣu cāpy aham) means — which of these is falsifiable, and by what kind of evidence?",
  "If bounded polysemy is a design feature of texts that survive, what does the survival of six irreconcilable readings of this single verse tell us about the Gītā's textual architecture?"
 ],
 "everyday_applications": {
  "advaita": "When you find yourself performing a role with genuine care — teaching, parenting, leading — and notice that some students or colleagues respond while others do not, the Śaṅkara reading asks: are you blaming yourself for the distance of those who do not approach, or are you simply remaining steady and available? The fire does not chase; it burns. Remain the fire.",
  "viśiṣṭādvaita": "In a relationship where you feel utterly dependent on another — mentor, spouse, community — Rāmānuja's reading says this very need, when honest and without manipulation, is the condition for genuine mutual indwelling (parasparavāsa). The moment you approach from need rather than performance, the ground shifts. Try this once today with someone you have been performing for.",
  "dvaita": "Madhva's buddhi-pūrvaka / abuddhi-pūrvaka distinction applies directly to organizational culture: some people are in your orbit consciously (they chose to be here), others unconsciously (circumstance brought them). The verse says both are in relation to something larger — but the quality and fruit of that relation differs enormously. Which mode are you operating from today?",
  "śuddhādvaita": "Vallabha's kalpavṛkṣa (wish-tree) image reframes entitlement: the tree withholds nothing — you simply have not sat beneath it. If you are not receiving what you need from a relationship, a practice, or a community, the Puṣṭi-mārga question is not 'are they withholding?' but 'have I actually approached?' Approach does not mean proximity in space — it means surrender of the transaction-mind.",
  "bhakti": "Śrīdhara's balance of the fire and wish-tree says: do not confuse God's impartiality with indifference. The same fire that warms the one who approaches simply does not reach the one who stays away — no hostility, no love-minus-justice, just physics. When you feel overlooked by a system, a teacher, or an institution that you know is fundamentally fair, Śrīdhara asks: have you moved closer?",
  "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusūdana's mirror-metaphor is directly actionable: the antaḥkaraṇa (inner instrument) becomes svaccha (pellucid) through niṣkāma-karma — action offered without attachment to outcome. Pick one recurring task today that you always perform with some agenda (recognition, reciprocity, safety) and do it once as pure offering. Notice whether the quality of your perception — of others, of the situation — shifts. That shift is the mirror clearing."
 },
 "primary_meaning": "I am the same in all beings, I have no enemy and no favorite, yet those who worship me with devotion abide in me, and I in them."
}