The Knowledge of Truth

This is the library’s second reading room. The Sanskrit comes from a public domain edition, checked against a second witness; the English is set in our own plain voice. Forty-eight passages, in the order a student first receives them. How each text is sourced and kept is set down in the Method. Read slowly.

• 1
  The invocation

  vāsudevendrayogīndraṃ natvā jñānapradaṃ…
  →
• 2
  The fourfold means

  sādhanacatuṣṭayaṃ kim
  →
• 3
  Discernment of the real

  nityānityavastuvivekaḥ kaḥ
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• 4
  Dispassion

  virāgaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 5
  The sixfold wealth

  śamādisādhanasampattiḥ kā
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• 6
  Calm

  śamaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 7
  Restraint

  damaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 8
  Withdrawal

  uparamaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 9
  Endurance

  titikṣā kā
  →
• 10
  Faith

  śraddhā kīdṛśī
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• 11
  Steadiness

  samādhānaṃ kim
  →
• 12
  The longing for liberation

  mumukṣutvaṃ kim
  →
• 13
  The real and the unreal

  tattvavivekaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 14
  The Self

  ātmā kaḥ
  →
• 15
  The gross body

  sthūlaśarīraṃ kim
  →
• 16
  The subtle body

  sūkṣmaśarīraṃ kim
  →
• 17
  The causal body

  kāraṇaśarīraṃ kim
  →
• 18
  The three states

  avasthātrayaṃ kim
  →
• 19
  Waking

  jāgradavasthā kā
  →
• 20
  Dream

  svapnāvasthā keti cet
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• 21
  Deep sleep

  ataḥ suṣuptyavasthā kā
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• 22
  The five sheaths

  pañca kośāḥ ke
  →
• 23
  The food sheath

  annamayaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 24
  The breath sheath

  prāṇamayaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 25
  The mind sheath

  manomayaḥ kośaḥ kaḥ
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• 26
  The intellect sheath

  vijñānamayaḥ kaḥ
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• 27
  The bliss sheath

  ānandamayaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 28
  What is mine is not the Self

  madīyaṃ śarīraṃ madīyāḥ prāṇāḥ madīyaṃ…
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• 29
  Being, consciousness, bliss

  ātmā tarhi kaḥ
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• 30
  Being

  satkim
  →
• 31
  Consciousness

  citkim
  →
• 32
  Bliss

  ānandaḥ kaḥ
  →
• 33
  Māyā

  atha caturviṃśatitattvotpattiprakāraṃ…
  →
• 34
  The five elements

  tataḥ ākāśaḥ sambhūtaḥ
  →
• 35
  The organs of perception

  eteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ madhye ākāśasya…
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• 36
  The inner instrument

  eteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ samaṣṭisātvikāṃśāt…
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• 37
  The organs of action

  eteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ madhye ākāśasya…
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• 38
  The fivefold compounding

  eteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ tāmasāṃśāt…
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• 39
  Jīva and Īśvara

  sthūlaśarīrābhimāni jīvanāmakaṃ…
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• 40
  That thou art

  nanu sāhaṃkārasya kiṃcijjñasya jīvasya…
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• 41
  Freed while living

  evaṃ ca vedāntavākyaiḥ sadgurūpadeśena ca…
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• 42
  Who is the jīvanmukta

  nanu jīvanmuktaḥ kaḥ
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• 43
  The three kinds of action

  brahmaivāhamasmītyaparokṣajñānena…
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• 44
  The coming action

  jñānotpattyanantaraṃ jñānidehakṛtaṃ…
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• 45
  The stored action

  sañcitaṃ karma kim
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• 46
  The begun action

  prārabdhaṃ karma kimiti cet
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• 47
  How knowledge undoes action

  sañcitaṃ karma brahmaivāhamiti…
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• 48
  The crossing over

  tathā cātmavitsaṃsāraṃ tīrtvā…
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